The Studio

THE STUDIO, GRAVEL LANE

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Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1337305
Date first listed:
15-May-1991
List Entry Name:
The Studio
Statutory Address:
THE STUDIO, GRAVEL LANE

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1337305
Date first listed:
15-May-1991
List Entry Name:
The Studio
Statutory Address 1:
THE STUDIO, GRAVEL LANE

The scope of legal protection for listed buildings

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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The scope of legal protection for listed buildings

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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Location

Statutory Address:
THE STUDIO, 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 45973 95683

Details

TQ 49 NE CHIGWELL GRAVEL LANE Lambourne End 2/102 The Studio II

Barn. C16, partially converted to studio by the artist Aida Palmer in the late C19 in art & Craft style;rest of building converted to dwelling in C20. Timber- framed with rendered panels on brick plinth with plain tile roof. Three-bay frame with midstrey -flanked by lean-to additions. Central stack. Half-hipped roof. Principal frame members exposed on exterior. Jowled posts with arch braces. C20 two- light casements throughout, some with recent fake leading. End bay of garden front has oriel window above recent herringbone brick nogged panels in place of a conservatory which has been removed. The interior has an inserted floor. The galleried full-height studio occupies one bay and has high quality timber detailing. Diagonal boarding to walls and ceiling." Screens passage" of the three bays with four-centred openings with carved spandrels and painted landscape panels above. Bracketted gallery with carved rail and chamfered balusters. Carved rail above entrance to the former conservatory the trefoil posts with moulded capitals. Ovolo-moulded four-centred-brick fireplace:The artist Aida Palmer who exhibited from 1884 lived at the next door house, Turnours Hall

Listing NGR: TQ4597395683

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Legacy System number:
118699
Legacy System:
LBS

Legal

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

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