Timbers
TIMBERS, 20, FEERING HILL
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1337607
- Date first listed:
- 21-Dec-1967
- List Entry Name:
- Timbers
- Statutory Address:
- TIMBERS, 20, FEERING HILL
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1337607
- Date first listed:
- 21-Dec-1967
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 29-Jul-1988
- List Entry Name:
- Timbers
- Statutory Address 1:
- TIMBERS, 20, FEERING HILL
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.
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.
Location
- Statutory Address:
- TIMBERS, 20, FEERING HILL
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Essex
- District:
- Braintree (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Feering
- National Grid Reference:
- TL 86637 19258
Details
FEERING FEERING HILL TL 8619-8719 (south-east side)
8/101 No. 20 (Timbers) 21.12.67 (formerly listed as 'Tacoma', in one item with no. 18 (Bridge House), to the SW)
GV II
House. C15, altered in C16, C17 and C18. Timber framed, plastered, roofed with handmade red plain tiles. 3 bays facing NW, originally comprising a 2-bay open hall and a storeyed parlour/solar bay to left. Mid-C16 axial stack at right end. C18 internal stack at left end. Late C17/18 single-storey rear extension at left end. (A rear extension at the right end now forms part of no. 18 (Bridge House), item 8/100, q.v.). 2 storeys and attics. 2-window range of early C19 sashes of 16 lights with some crown glass. Central 5 panel door, the top panel glazed, in eared doorcase with pulvinated frieze and pediment. Wooden dentils below eaves. The left return has on the ground floor one C18 2-light window with wrought iron casement, and in the attic gable one C17 2-light window with wrought casement and decorative fretted latch-plate; both windows have rectangular leading. The right ground-floor room has a wide wood-burning hearth, an inserted floor of c.1560 comprising chamfered transverse and axial beams, and chamfered plain joists of square section with step stops, jointed to it with soffit tenons with diminished haunches; rebate for shutter of former unglazed window, replaced by present window. The left ground-floor room, comprising the original parlour, has a chamfered axial beam, plain joists of horizontal section jointed to it with unrefined soffit tenons, replaced in the front half by narrower plain joists of vertical section; carpenters' marks; C20 grate. The upper storey has at the right end a C17 wood-burning hearth with rounded interior and chamfered mantel beam with lamb's tongue and notch stops; in the front wallplate an edge-splayed and bridled scarf; jowled posts; some exposed wattle and daub infill in the rear wall; C17 attic floor with chamfered transverse and axial beams with lamb's tongue stops. The roof is of collar-rafter couples, with in many rafters lower trenches for removed collars. There has been some rebuilding of the front wall in the C16 and C18; there is some evidence of a former oriel window on the upper storey. At the SW end the upper storey partly overlays the lower storey of no. 18 (Bridge House).
Listing NGR: TL8663719258
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 116422
- 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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