Buck's House
BUCK'S HOUSE, VINE STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1337815
- Date first listed:
- 17-May-1985
- List Entry Name:
- Buck's House
- Statutory Address:
- BUCK'S HOUSE, VINE STREET
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1337815
- Date first listed:
- 17-May-1985
- List Entry Name:
- Buck's House
- Statutory Address 1:
- BUCK'S HOUSE, VINE STREET
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:
- BUCK'S HOUSE, VINE STREET
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Essex
- District:
- Braintree (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Great Bardfield
- National Grid Reference:
- TL 67575 30564
Details
TL 6730 GREAT BARDFIELD VINE STREET (south-east side)
8/205 Buck's House
GV II
House. Circa 1500, altered c.1600 and in C19. Timber framed, faced with red brick in Flemish bond, roofed with handmade red clay tiles and slate. 2-bay hall range facing W, and 2-bay crosswing to right. One-bay rear extension to crosswing, c.1600, with C19 stack in right wall. Early C19 2-storey extension in rear angle, completing an approximately square plan, with 2 stacks in gault brick, and slated hipped roof of shallow pitch. 2 storeys and attics. Ground floor, 2 late C19 splayed bays of sashes of 2-4-2 lights. First floor, 4 late C19 sashes of 4 lights in early C19 apertures with flat arches of gauged brick. Attic gable, pair of similar windows. C20 door. C19 pierced bargeboards. Granite bollard on front right corner. The rear gable end is weatherboarded, with a carved bressumer in seventine designs, c.1600. The rear wall of the early C19 extension is of painted brick, and in the N wall is an original bow window of 36 lights, with internal folding shutters, a rare feature. The interior of the hall has exposed transverse and axial beams of a floor inserted in tile C16, and a small area of C17 pine panelling. The early C19 extension retains the original rear door, half-glazed in parchemin design, and the original stair with stick balusters. The crosswing has jowled posts. The c.1600 rear extension has an original 3-light window at first-floor level, with 2 ovolo mullions and one diamond saddle bar, now blocked by the early C19 extension. The roof of the hall is of crownpost construction, the rafters lightly smoke-blackened, the collar-purlin and all the collars except one missing. The roof of the c.1600 rear extension has cranked collars. The name derives from the Buck family, whose headstones are in the Quaker burial ground at the rear. RCHM 16.
Listing NGR: TL6757530564
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 115344
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Other
An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in Essex North West, (1916)
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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