Boydell's Farmhouse
BOYDELL'S FARMHOUSE, BRAINTREE ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1337870
- Date first listed:
- 02-May-1953
- List Entry Name:
- Boydell's Farmhouse
- Statutory Address:
- BOYDELL'S FARMHOUSE, BRAINTREE ROAD
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1337870
- Date first listed:
- 02-May-1953
- List Entry Name:
- Boydell's Farmhouse
- Statutory Address 1:
- BOYDELL'S 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:
- BOYDELL'S 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:
- Wethersfield
- National Grid Reference:
- TL 72151 29897
Details
TL 7229 WETHERSFIELD BRAINTREE ROAD (east side)
6/130 Boydell's Farmhouse 2.5.53
GV II*
House. C16, altered in C20. Timber framed, roughcast rendered, roofed with handmade red clay tiles. 3-bay main range facing SW, c.1580, and 3-bay crosswing at right end, c.1500, with internal stack at the junction, forming a T-plan. C20 2-storey extension with flat roof behind main range. C20 single-storey lean-to extension at left end. C20 gabled porch at right end. 2 storeys with attics. Ground floor, 4 C20 casements, 3 more on first floor, and one in attic gable. C20 door in gabled porch. Grouped diagonal shafts, rebuilt. Jowled posts, heavy studding. The crosswing has an underbuilt jetty at the front, a chamfered binding beam with step stops, plain joists of horizontal section, and a stair in the original stair trap at the rear end, an edge-halved and bridled scarf in the right wallplate, and mortices and shutter grooves for unglazed windows. Original studded partition on first floor between rear and middle bay. Cambered tiebeam, roof probably originally of crownpost construction, altered. Inserted frieze window at front of first floor, c.1580, with 2 blocked side windows each complete with 2 moulded mullions and 3 saddle bars. Large wood-burning hearth, the mantel beam probably surviving from an earlier timber framed chimney, and blocked hearth on first floor. The main range has a chamfered binding beam with lamb's tongue stops and plain joists of horizontal section, 3 original frieze windows, each with 2 blocked side windows complete with 2 moulded mullions and 3 diamond saddle bars, and original clasped purlin roof with arched wind bracing, the tiebeam chamfered with lamb's tongue stops. Large wood-burning hearth with cranked mantel beam, and oak framed spice cupboard at side, door missing. This house has an exceptional range of original internal features. RCHM 32.
Listing NGR: TL7215129897
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 115643
- 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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