Appletree Farm Cottage
APPLETREE FARM COTTAGE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1337620
- Date first listed:
- 29-Jul-1988
- List Entry Name:
- Appletree Farm Cottage
- Statutory Address:
- APPLETREE FARM COTTAGE
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- Reference:
- IOE01/03067/29
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1337620
- Date first listed:
- 29-Jul-1988
- List Entry Name:
- Appletree Farm Cottage
- Statutory Address 1:
- APPLETREE FARM COTTAGE
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:
- APPLETREE FARM COTTAGE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Essex
- District:
- Braintree (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Cressing
- National Grid Reference:
- TL 78787 20395
Details
CRESSING HAWBUSH GREEN TL 72 SE (east side)
1/55 Appletree Farm Cottage
GV II
House. Circa 1500, altered c.1600 and in C20. Timber framed, plastered, roofed with handmade red plain tiles. 2-bay hall facing SW, parlour/solar bay to left. Original service bay to right demolished, replaced by early Cl? extension. Stack in rear wall near left end, enclosed by C18/19 lean-to extension. C20 lean-to extension to rear of right end. One storey with attics. 4 C20 casements, and 2 more in gabled dormers. C20 door at front of gabled porch. Rear stack rebuilt in C20 above roof level. Jowled posts, heavy studding, edge-halved and bridled scarfs in both wallplates, main frame chamfered with step stops. The hall has an original rear doorway with plain doorhead at the right end, front door blocked, cambered central tiebeam, diamond mortices and shutter rebate in front wallplate for large unglazed window (sill and transom missing), blocked single doorway to service end. Inserted floor comprising chamfered transverse beam with lamb's tongue stops, plain joists of vertical section supported on clamps. The original studded partition at the left end of the hall has been removed on the ground floor, but is present above to the tiebeam, with smoke-blackening; the studs above the tiebeam have been replaced. A framed doorway has been inserted in the tiebeam in the C17, reinforced later by iron strapping, with 2 pintle hinges in doorpost. The rear stack has a wide wood-burning hearth of C16 bricks, entirely repointed and reduced for a C20 grate; the left jamb is 0.33 metre wide, the right jamb is 0.23 metre wide, indicating some alteration; a smaller C19 hearth faces into the rear lean-to. The present floor in the left (parlour/solar) bay is not original, comprising a chamfered axial beam with lamb's tongue stops and plain joists of vertical section, late C17/early C18. The original studded partition at the right end of the hall is heavily weathered to the right; the floor in the right end bay comprises a chamfered axial beam with step stops, and plain joists of horizontal section supported on clamps. The roof has been altered. Probably RCHM 9. Shown on L/2500 OS map (1970 edition) as Appletree Farm.
Listing NGR: TL7878720395
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 116379
- 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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