Plaistowgreen Farmhouse
PLAISTOWGREEN FARMHOUSE, PLAISTOWGREEN ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1337936
- Date first listed:
- 10-Apr-1987
- List Entry Name:
- Plaistowgreen Farmhouse
- Statutory Address:
- PLAISTOWGREEN FARMHOUSE, PLAISTOWGREEN ROAD
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- Date:
- 2001-10-16
- Reference:
- IOE01/05845/18
- Rights:
- © Mr Frank Swift. Source: Historic England Archive
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1337936
- Date first listed:
- 10-Apr-1987
- List Entry Name:
- Plaistowgreen Farmhouse
- Statutory Address 1:
- PLAISTOWGREEN FARMHOUSE, PLAISTOWGREEN 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:
- PLAISTOWGREEN FARMHOUSE, PLAISTOWGREEN ROAD
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 80769 28056
Details
TL 82 NW GREENSTEAD GREEN AND PLAISTOWGREEN ROAD HALSTEAD RURAL (south side)
5/153 Plaistowgreen Farmhouse
- II
House. Mid-C16, altered in C17 and C20. Timber framed, plastered, roofed with handmade red plain tiles. 3 bays facing NW, with C17 external stack at right end and C19/20 external stack at left end. Full-length lean-to extension to rear, of which the left part forms an open loggia. 2 storeys. 3-window range of C20 casements. C20 door. Full-length jetty, plastered over, with 4 original brackets exposed. Gablet hip at each end of roof. Jowled posts, close studding partly exposed internally, edge-halved and bridled scarfs in wallplates. The interior was originally divided into a short left bay comprising the service end, and 2 longer bays comprising the 'hall' and cross-entry, with equivalent chambers over. The original front doorway is blocked; the original rear doorway continues in use with rebated doorposts and a hollow-chamfered 4-centred arched head. The partition wall to the left of the cross-entry has been removed, but had 2 doorways through, asymmetrically arranged; the chamfered bridging beam between the doorways does not exhibit evidence of a partition between 2 service rooms. On the first floor this partition remains, and exhibits original patterned daub. The binding beam across the 'hall' is moulded on both sides with an ogee and hollow, with one swept stop only. A wide opening in the studding indicates the position of a former original rear chimney, probably timber-framed; this is confirmed by woodsmoke staining on the wallplate. The tiebeam below the right gablet has been removed; ceilings have been inserted in the C17 in both upper rooms, the beams chamfered with lamb's tongue stops. Side-purlin roof with arched wind-bracing. The large wood-burning hearth at the right end has been reduced for a C20 grate. RCHM 10.
Listing NGR: TL8076928056
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 115991
- 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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