Crabb's Farmhouse
CRABB'S FARMHOUSE, CRANES LANE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1337635
- Date first listed:
- 29-Jul-1988
- List Entry Name:
- Crabb's Farmhouse
- Statutory Address:
- CRABB'S FARMHOUSE, CRANES LANE
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- Reference:
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1337635
- Date first listed:
- 29-Jul-1988
- List Entry Name:
- Crabb's Farmhouse
- Statutory Address 1:
- CRABB'S FARMHOUSE, CRANES 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.
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:
- CRABB'S FARMHOUSE, CRANES LANE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Essex
- District:
- Braintree (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Kelvedon
- National Grid Reference:
- TL 85100 17889
Details
KELVEDON CRANE'S LANE (CRABB'S TL 81 NE LANE) (east side)
6/156 Crabb's Farmhouse
GV II
House. Circa 1500 and C16, altered in C2,0. Timber framed, plastered, roofed with handmade red plain tiles. 5 bays facing sW, comprising 3 phases of building: (1) middle section of 2 bays, c.1500, with later stack at left end, behind axis, (2) 2-bay extension to left, C16, joined to it, with external stack at left end, (3) one-bay section of wider span to right, structurally separate from middle part, with central stack. 2 storeys. 5-window range of C20 casements. C20 door in lean-to porch. The left section has a lower roof line than the middle section. The walls of the right section have been raised approx. one metre, forming a roof higher than that of the middle part. All 3 sections have jowled posts and heavy studding. The middle section has a cambered central tiebeam, the arched braces to it missing, an original chamfered axial beam with step stops in the left bay mounted on a ledged post, external bracing, and a crownpost roof complete with 4 axial braces; the right bay of this roof appears to be smoke-blackened, indicating that this bay was not fully floored originally. The left section has plain stops, and a cambered central tiebeam complete with 2 chamfered arched braces. The right bay has a studded partition at left, in addition to the end frame of the middle section; the roof was rebuilt in softwood following damage by lightning in 1986. The C18 N wing mentioned by the RCHM (55) is now a separate cottage.
Listing NGR: TL8510017889
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 116470
- 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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