The Croft
THE CROFT, THE GREEN
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1337912
- Date first listed:
- 10-Apr-1987
- List Entry Name:
- The Croft
- Statutory Address:
- THE CROFT, THE GREEN
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- Date:
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- Reference:
- IOE01/14813/05
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1337912
- Date first listed:
- 10-Apr-1987
- List Entry Name:
- The Croft
- Statutory Address 1:
- THE CROFT, THE GREEN
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 CROFT, THE GREEN
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Essex
- District:
- Braintree (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Colne Engaine
- National Grid Reference:
- TL 85068 30527
Details
TL 8430-8530 COLNE ENGAINE THE GREEN (west side)
7/16 The Croft
GV II
House. C16, altered in C19. Timber framed, mainly clad with white brick in Flemish bond, roofed with handmade red clay tiles. 2-bay range with underbuilt long jetty facing S, with an internal stack at each end. Early C16 2-bay crosswing to left, late C16 2-bay crosswing to right. Large Victorian 2-storey extension of yellow brick to rear right, the same brick extended along the right return of the right crosswing. C20 single-storey lean-to extension with slate roof to rear left. 2 storeys. Ground floor, 4 C20 sashes and one C19 sash with marginal lights. First floor, 3 C20 sashes and one similar C19 sash. French windows. The date 1600 is inscribed in the plaster of the gablet above the right crossing. An inscription 'C.R.P. 1840' in the plaster to the rear of the central range (enclosed by the Victorian extension) refers to the then owner, C.R. Pudney. Jowled posts throughout, and plain joists of horizontal section where exposed. The middle range has a chamfered tiebeam with runout stops and one straight brace exposed, another concealed in a cupboard at the right end; roof rebuilt in C17. The left crosswing has a crownpost roof with axial bracing, and a chamfered binding beam with step stops. The right crosswing has a clasped purlin roof with arched wind-bracing, and a chamfered binding beam with plain stops and empty mortices for a central partition. Early C19 stair with slender turned balusters, complete on the first floor, missing alternately on the ground floor. This house was used as a parish poorhouse until the 1830s; the white brick facing was added soon afterwards.
Listing NGR: TL8506830527
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 115865
- 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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