Prayers Thorn
PRAYERS THORN, EWEN BRIDGE ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1337820
- Date first listed:
- 19-Mar-1986
- List Entry Name:
- Prayers Thorn
- Statutory Address:
- PRAYERS THORN, EWEN BRIDGE ROAD
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1337820
- Date first listed:
- 19-Mar-1986
- List Entry Name:
- Prayers Thorn
- Statutory Address 1:
- PRAYERS THORN, EWEN BRIDGE 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:
- PRAYERS THORN, EWEN BRIDGE ROAD
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Essex
- District:
- Braintree (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Shalford
- National Grid Reference:
- TL 73181 28398
Details
TL 72 NW SHALFORD EWEN BRIDGE ROAD (east side)
3/58 Prayers Thorn
GV II
House. C16, altered in C17 and C20. Timber framed, plastered with weatherboarded dado, roof thatched. 2-bay hall facing SW, with originally storeyed service bay to left, and originally unstoreyed parlour bay to right. Stack in left bay of hall against rear wall, c.1600, forming a lobby-entrance. Parlour bay extended to right approx. 1.5 metres in C17. C20 extension with thatched roof at left end, C20 single-storey lean-to extension with roof of corrugated asbestos at rear. One storey with attics. 4 C20 horizontally sliding sashes, and 2 C20 casements in gabled dormers. C20 door in lean-to porch with shingled roof. A beam of the inserted floor projects through the front wall inside the porch, tusk-tenoned. Jowled posts, heavy studding with curved braces trenched to the inside, clasped purlin roof with arched wind-bracing. The original partition between the hall and the parlour bay has been removed, and a C20 imitation unglazed window inserted in the rear wall on the site of a severed wallpost. All joists plain and of horizontal section. All the floor to right of the stack was inserted c.1600; one beam is chamfered with lamb's tongue stops, another is chamfered with lamb's tongue-plus-bar stops. The large wood-burning hearth facing to right has been divided by later brickwork to form 2 opposite hearths. The name derives from an estate clap of 1603, in which the property is named Prayers, followed by the name of the tenant, Thomas (misread as Thorn) Cleveland. This building is on the boundary between the parishes of Shalford and Wethersfield, but according to the Electoral Register it is regarded as being in Shalford parish. RCHM 36.
Listing NGR: TL7318128398
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 115577
- 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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