BROOK FARMHOUSE

BROOK FARMHOUSE, TILBURY ROAD

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1337998
Date first listed:: 07-Aug-1952
List Entry Name:: BROOK FARMHOUSE
Statutory Address:: BROOK FARMHOUSE, TILBURY ROAD

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Date:: 2002-04-20
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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1337998
Date first listed:: 07-Aug-1952
List Entry Name:: BROOK FARMHOUSE
Statutory Address 1:: BROOK FARMHOUSE, TILBURY ROAD

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.

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This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

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.

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Location

Statutory Address:: BROOK FARMHOUSE, TILBURY ROAD

The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.

County:: Essex
District:: Braintree (District Authority)
Parish:: Great Yeldham
National Grid Reference:: TL7615339048

Details

TL 73 NE 4/69 7.8.1952

GREAT YELDHAM TILBURY ROAD, West Side Brook Farmhouse

II

House, c.1400, extended in C16, C18 and C20, now 2 cottages. Timber framed, plastered roofed with handmade red clay tiles. 2-bay hall, aligned NW-SE, aspect NE, with parlour/solar bay to SE. Axial chimney stack in NW bay of hall, late C16, and C18/19 stack in SE bay. NW crosswing of 2 bays, late C16. Rear extension behind main axial chimney stack, C18. Single-storey lean-to extension behind SE end, C20. Single-storey with attics and 2 storeys. One 6-panel door and one 4-panel door, the top panels of both glazed, 4 C19/20 casement windows. First floor, one more in crosswing and 2 more in gabled dormers. Gablet roof at SE end. C16 external chimney stack at NW end has 2 diagonal shafts rebuilt in C19. Original ovolo-moulded bargeboards on gable of crosswing. The interior has jowled posts, chamfered transverse beam with step stops at SE end, late C16 inserted floor in hall with chamfered axial beam with lamb's tongue stops and plain joists of horizontal section. Deep arched braces to central tiebeam, meeting in the middle, tiebeam and one brace severed for inserted doorway. Octagonal crownpost, curved braces to collar-purlin, collars and rafters over hall heavily smoke-blackened, some rafters re-set near SE end. The original smoke vent at the SE gablet is of particular interest. Roof of crosswing has high collars clasping side purlins. Some rebuilding at sides of main hearth. RCHM 15.

Listing NGR: TL7615339038

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Legacy System number:: 114458
Legacy System:: LBS

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An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in Essex North West, (1916)

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This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.