Oxford House
OXFORD HOUSE, 17 AND 19, HIGH STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed building
- List Entry Number:
- 1337902
- Date first listed:
- 10-Apr-1987
- Statutory Address:
- OXFORD HOUSE, 17 AND 19, HIGH STREET
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- Date:
- 2001-05-06
- Reference:
- IOE01/04164/09
- Rights:
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed building
- List Entry Number:
- 1337902
- Date first listed:
- 10-Apr-1987
- Statutory Address 1:
- OXFORD HOUSE, 17 AND 19, HIGH STREET
Location
- Statutory Address:
- OXFORD HOUSE, 17 AND 19, HIGH STREET
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Essex
- District:
- Braintree (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Earls Colne
- National Grid Reference:
- TL 85684 28952
Details
TL 8428-8528 EARLS COLNE HIGH STREET (north side)
8/70 Nos. 17 and 19 (Oxford House)
GV II
On the OS map no. 19 is wrongly included in the Public House to the E. House and shop. C14, late C15 and late C18, altered in early C19. Timber framed, clad with red brick in Flemish bond, roofed with handmade red plain tiles. C14 aisled hall, of 2 bays facing S. Early C16 stack in rear aisle, and C16 4-bay extension beyond. C15 crosswing to right, and later stack to right, roof rebuilt to align with main range. Front aisle missing. 2 storeys. Ground floor, projecting C20 double shopfront with central door (no. 17), late C19 shopfront converted into sash window, with projecting fluted jambs and flat canopy with egg-and-dart frieze, all in red brick. First floor, 4 C19 sashes with marginal lights. A brick pilaster divides the shop from the small domestic facade at right, which has a C20 door with flat canopy and moulded architrave, and a plain door with fanlight to a through-passage. The frame of the former aisled hall is fragmentary, but indicates twin service doors at the right end, bench fixings at the left end, and a heavily smoke-blackened crownpost roof with down bracing to the tiebeams. Carved and crenellated mantel beam at front of rear stack. Moulded and carved bridging beam with running vine design and the molet of the de Veres, Earls of Oxford. Moulded joists of horizontal section. Documentary evidence indicates that this house was in the hands of the Leffingwell family in 1468, 1592 and 1598 (Wherein I Dwell, Earls Colne WEA, 1983, 49. R. Shackle, An Aisled Hall at Earls Colne, Essex Archaeology and History 16, 1984-5, 153-4). RCHM 9.
Listing NGR: TL8568428952
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 115918
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Wherein I Dwell, (1983), 49
Essex Archaeology and History in Essex Archaeology and History, Vol. 16, (1985), 153-4
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