Brook Farmhouse
BROOK FARMHOUSE, TILBURY ROAD
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Overview
- 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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- 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
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:
- 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
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 114458
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Other
An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in Essex North West, (1916)
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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