BROWNINGS FARMHOUSE

BROWNINGS FARMHOUSE, GRAVEL LANE

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1337262
Date first listed:: 28-Jun-1954
List Entry Name:: BROWNINGS FARMHOUSE
Statutory Address:: BROWNINGS FARMHOUSE, GRAVEL LANE

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1337262
Date first listed:: 28-Jun-1954
List Entry Name:: BROWNINGS FARMHOUSE
Statutory Address 1:: BROWNINGS FARMHOUSE, GRAVEL LANE

This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

Unless the List entry states otherwise, it includes both the structure itself and any object or structure fixed to it (whether inside or outside) as well as any object or structure within the curtilage of the building.

For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.

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This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.

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Location

Statutory Address:: BROWNINGS FARMHOUSE, GRAVEL LANE

The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.

County:: Essex
District:: Epping Forest (District Authority)
Parish:: Chigwell
National Grid Reference:: TQ 46305 94318

Details

TQ 49 SE CHIGWELL GRAVEL LANE 5/2 Brownings 28.6. 54 Farmhouse II

II House, late medieval and later, extended c.1800. Timber framed, plastered, roofed with handmade red clay tiles. Aligned approx. NE-SW, late medieval service crosswing to NE, central section largely rebuilt in C16, SW crosswing of undetermined date. Central chimney stack, external chimney stacks on NE and SW walls. Small lean-to extensions on NE and SW walls. To the NW of the SW crosswing a large extension, c.1800, with double gables to NW and SE, and NE chimney, the SW side forming the present entrance elevation. The SE elevation, towards Gravel Lane, exhibits 3 gable ends of which the middle is the largest, 2 storeys with attic, 2 storeys elsewhere. Each side wing has a late C19 bay of 2 storeys with tiled hipped roof and double-hung sash windows of 2-4-2 lights. The middle section has a casement window on each floor. The main door, at the S corner of the NW wing, is of 6 flush panels with rectangular light over, with fan and garland tracery of wood, and inside, a wrought iron grill with radiating spikes. This is set in a recessed porch with shallow hood on consoles. There is a large stone step with wrought iron shoescraper each side. All the windows of this wing are double-hung sash windows of 12 lights, c.1800, with many panes of crown glass. The SW lean-to extension has one C17 wrought iron casement, with later alterations in wood. The NE crosswing, the earliest part of the present building, is lower than the remainder, with a queen post roof, and edge-halved and bridled scarfs in the wallplates. The ground floor was originally divided into 2 service rooms, partition now removed, but the post rebated for twin service doors is visible. The medieval cross- entry at the NE end of the central section is still present, with an ancient door of exceptional width at the rear end, the front end blocked to form a cupboard. It is not clear how much of the structure of the medieval hall remains; this section has been rebuilt with clasped purlin roof on a NW-SE alignment, an unusual treatment. The floor has a plain-chamfered beam with step stops also aligned NW-SE, and exposed joists of square section, unchamfered, C16. Little dating evidence is visible in the SW wing, but it may be cl?. The NW wing has a plain stair, and on the first floor a fireplace of Adam-derived style and a corner cupboard, c.1800. A report in the possession of the owner by C. Johnson, Epping Rural District Council, 1970, records the documentary history of Brownings Farm with all its occupiers since 1468.

Listing NGR: TQ4630594318

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This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.