The Gables
THE GABLES, SILVER STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1337864
- Date first listed:
- 19-Mar-1986
- List Entry Name:
- The Gables
- Statutory Address:
- THE GABLES, SILVER STREET
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- Reference:
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1337864
- Date first listed:
- 19-Mar-1986
- List Entry Name:
- The Gables
- Statutory Address 1:
- THE GABLES, SILVER 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:
- THE GABLES, SILVER STREET
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Essex
- District:
- Braintree (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Wethersfield
- National Grid Reference:
- TL7106031287
Details
TL 7031-7131
5/206
WETHERSFIELD
SILVER STREET
(north side)
The Gables
GV
II
House. C15 and C16, altered in C18 and C20. Timber framed, clad with C20 waney
weatherboards, roofed with handmade red clay tiles. 2-bay hall facing S with
late C16 axial stack at E end. 2-bay crosswing to W, with early C18 stack at
rear, and C20 extensions beyond. One-bay extension to E of hall, C17. Crosswing
of 2 storeys, main range of one storey with attics. Ground floor, 5 C20
casements. First floor, 4 more, of which 2 are in gabled dormers and one is in
a feature gable. 2 C20 doors, one in a gabled porch. The hall has heavy
studding with arched braces trenched to the inside, and a late C16 inserted
floor comprising a chamfered axial beam with lamb's tongue stops and chamfered
joists of horizontal section with lamb's tongue stops supported on pegged
clamps. Large wood-burning hearth. Roof of hall rebuilt in C18. The C16 main
frame of the crosswing is present, with a blocked original window in the left
return, but the floor and other parts have been substantially rebuilt in the
C18. The extension to the right has a wood-burning hearth with rounded back, a
chamfered transverse beam with joists of various types and dates, and early
floor boards. The wall framing has been substantially altered in the C18. This
building has passed through the stage of being converted to 3 cottages,
subsequently combined. RCHM 14.
Listing NGR: TL7106031287
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 115718
- 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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