Highbarn Hall Farmhouse
HIGHBARN HALL FARMHOUSE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1337932
- Date first listed:
- 10-Apr-1987
- List Entry Name:
- Highbarn Hall Farmhouse
- Statutory Address:
- HIGHBARN HALL FARMHOUSE
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- Date:
- 2001-10-29
- Reference:
- IOE01/05884/04
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1337932
- Date first listed:
- 10-Apr-1987
- List Entry Name:
- Highbarn Hall Farmhouse
- Statutory Address 1:
- HIGHBARN HALL FARMHOUSE
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:
- HIGHBARN HALL FARMHOUSE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Essex
- District:
- Braintree (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Greenstead Green and Halstead Rural
- National Grid Reference:
- TL 80092 27785
Details
TL 82 NW GREENSTEAD GREEN AND HALSTEAD RURAL 5/135 Highbarn Hall Farmhouse
- II
House. Early C14, C17 and later. Timber framed, plastered, roofed with handmade red plain tiles. 2-bay hall facing NE, with contemporary service crosswing to right and possible crosswing to left, now forming a continuous rectangular range. Single-storey lean-to extension of painted brick at right end. 2 axial stacks, that to the right being an insertion of c.1600 in the open hall. 2 storeys with one lit attic. 2-window range of C18 3-light windows with wrought iron casements and rectangular leading, those on the ground floor having C18/19 wide boarded hinged shutters each with 3 heart-shaped perforations. Also 3 C20 casements on the ground floor and one on the first floor. Off-centre 6-panel door with C18 Tuscan porch with fluted pilasters and dentilled segmental pediment and roof. Painted in the pediment is: M I E 1727 C18 gambrel roof half-hipped at the left end, hipped at the right end, with one C20 casement in a gabled dormer. On the left elevation 2 similar C18 windows are arranged as 2-storey splayed bay. Floor inserted in hall c.1600 and contemporary wide wood-burning hearth facing to left with substantial mantel beam. At the right end of the hall 2 original service doorways remain, with double ogee heads. Blocked unglazed window. Splayed scarf with undersquinted abutments in wallplate. Numerous internal doors and cupboards of good C18 workmanship. Possibly RCHM 11, which was described as Simnel's Farm.
Listing NGR: TL8009227785
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 115974
- 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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