Little Priory Farmhouse
LITTLE PRIORY FARMHOUSE, BRAINTREE ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1337830
- Date first listed:
- 19-Mar-1986
- List Entry Name:
- Little Priory Farmhouse
- Statutory Address:
- LITTLE PRIORY FARMHOUSE, BRAINTREE ROAD
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1337830
- Date first listed:
- 19-Mar-1986
- List Entry Name:
- Little Priory Farmhouse
- Statutory Address 1:
- LITTLE PRIORY FARMHOUSE, BRAINTREE 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:
- LITTLE PRIORY FARMHOUSE, BRAINTREE ROAD
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Essex
- District:
- Braintree (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Panfield
- National Grid Reference:
- TL 74289 25685
Details
TL 72 NW PANFIELD BRAINTREE ROAD (west side)
3/6 Little Priory Farmhouse
GV II
House. C17, altered in early C19. Timber framed, plastered, roofed with slate and handmade red clay tiles, stacks of red brick and gault brick. 4 bays facing NE with red brick stack one bay from left end against front wall. Extended to left by one bay in C18 or C19. External stack of gault brick at right end. Original rear wing of 2 bays to rear of main stack, with external end stack of gault brick. C17 extension of 3 bays in right rear angle, parallel with main range, and small C19 lean-to extension at right end. 2 storeys. 3-window range of early C19 sashes of 16 lights, with crown glass. 6-panel door with lower panels boarded. The front elevation has been raised approx. one metre in the early C19, plastered with incised lines in imitation of ashlar, presenting a hipped roof of shallow pitch with slates to the front, but retaining the steeply pitched roof with tiles to the rear. Other roofs of tiles. The interior has chamfered beams with lamb's-tongue-and-notch stops, plain joists of vertical section (originally plastered to the soffits, some now exposed), jowled posts. Large wood-burning hearth facing to left, with some renewed brickwork. Rear hearth rebuilt in C20. Early C19 stair with wreathed rosewood rails, stick balusters, 2 cast iron stanchions with guilloche and other motifs, and scrolled tread ends. In rear wing, early C19 pine corner cupboard with profiled shelves.
Listing NGR: TL7433825692
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 115528
- 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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