Gate House Farmhouse
GATE HOUSE FARMHOUSE, ROBIN'S BRIDGE ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1337993
- Date first listed:
- 06-Sept-1988
- List Entry Name:
- Gate House Farmhouse
- Statutory Address:
- GATE HOUSE FARMHOUSE, ROBIN'S BRIDGE ROAD
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1337993
- Date first listed:
- 06-Sept-1988
- List Entry Name:
- Gate House Farmhouse
- Statutory Address 1:
- GATE HOUSE FARMHOUSE, ROBIN'S BRIDGE 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:
- GATE HOUSE FARMHOUSE, ROBIN'S BRIDGE ROAD
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Essex
- District:
- Braintree (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Coggeshall
- National Grid Reference:
- TL 84119 23774
Details
TL 82 SW COGGESHALL ROBIN'S BRIDGE ROAD (north-east side)
5/172 Gate House Farmhouse
- II
House. Mid-C16 and late C16, extended in C18 and C19. Timber framed, plastered, roofed with handmade red plain tiles. Mid-C16 5-bay range, originally facing S, with stack in middle bay against S wall. Late C16 2-bay extension to W, facing N, with external stack to W, and C19 single-storey brick extension beyond. 2 storeys. C18 3-bay service range to S of late C16 extension, one storey with attics, and CL9 single-storey extension of painted brick beyond. The original range has a continuous jetty to the S, but the house now faces N. N elevation, 5-window range of C20 casements. C20 boarded door below jetty of late C16 extension, with moulded bressumer and 2 carved brackets. The stack to right of it has crenellated sloping offsets to the right, and a C19 shaft. The S elevation has 4 C20 casements on the ground floor, 3 on the first floor, and one C18 window of 3 fixed lights with moulded mullions and rectangular leading. 4 plain brackets below S jetty. Shaped sprockets below eaves on both sides of late C16 extension, all along S elevation, and some on N elevation of original range. Jowled posts. The original range has chamfered axial and transverse beams, some with step stops, edge-halved and bridled scarfs in the wallplates, grooves for sliding shutters, cambered tiebeams, and high clasped purlins with arched wind-bracing. 2 wood-burning hearths, one lined with C20 yellow bricks, one blocked for a C20 grate. Attic fully floored with rebated hardwood boards, unlit. The late C16 extension has a chamfered beam with lamb's tongue stops; the roof has been raised approximately 0.5 metre to form a gable facing N. The C18 wing has unjowled posts; all the tiebeam have been severed for doorways; wide wood-burning hearth, converted for stove; chamfered axial beams, with lamb's tongue stops above the first floor only. A firemark, Sun Fire Office no. 609807, was found on the premises and is exhibited in this wing. Shown on map of 1731 as 'Coggeshall Gate House' (Essex Record Office D/DU 19/2). RCHM 96.
Listing NGR: TL8411923774
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 116204
- 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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