Claypit Hall Farmhouse
CLAYPIT HALL FARMHOUSE, WETHERSFIELD ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1337816
- Date first listed:
- 17-May-1985
- List Entry Name:
- Claypit Hall Farmhouse
- Statutory Address:
- CLAYPIT HALL FARMHOUSE, WETHERSFIELD ROAD
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1337816
- Date first listed:
- 17-May-1985
- List Entry Name:
- Claypit Hall Farmhouse
- Statutory Address 1:
- CLAYPIT HALL FARMHOUSE, WETHERSFIELD ROAD
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:
- CLAYPIT HALL FARMHOUSE, WETHERSFIELD ROAD
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:
- TL6830030655
Details
TL 63 SE
3/211
GREAT BARDFIELD
WETHERSFIELD ROAD
(north side)
Claypit Hall Farmhouse
II
House. C16 and C17, altered in C18 and C19. Timber framed, plastered, roofed
with handmade red clay tiles. 2-bay hall range aligned approx. N-S, C16, and
entrance/stair hall to S. 4-bay crosswing to S with central stack, early C17,
forming a lobby-entrance house of L-plan. Stair tower in left rear angle, early
C17. C18 extension to left of rear bay of hall range, and C19 single-storey
extension with slate roof to rear of it. Front range of 2 storeys and attics,
hall range of 2 storeys. Ground floor, 2 early C19 sashes of 16 lights. First
floor, 2 similar sashes and one of 12 lights. Central 6-panel door in moulded
doorcase with shallow hood on scrolled brackets, early C19. Front range has a
gambrel roof, half-hipped at both ends. The right return wall has 2 C17/C18 3-
light windows, each with a wrought iron casement and early glass, and 2 C19
horizontally sliding sashes of 12 lights. The rear elevation has an C18 2-light
window with one wrought iron casement. The interior of the hall range has a
chamfered axial beam with plain joists of square section supported on pegged
clamps, and a rebuilt roof. The front range has chamfered axial beams with
lamb's tongue stops over ground and first floors. The stair tower has an
original octagonal newel post terminating in a square knob.
Listing NGR: TL6830030655
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 115350
- 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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