Red House
RED HOUSE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1337999
- Date first listed:
- 07-Aug-1952
- List Entry Name:
- Red House
- Statutory Address:
- RED HOUSE
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- Reference:
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1337999
- Date first listed:
- 07-Aug-1952
- List Entry Name:
- Red House
- Statutory Address 1:
- RED HOUSE
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:
- RED HOUSE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Essex
- District:
- Braintree (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Little Yeldham
- National Grid Reference:
- TL 77822 39835
Details
TL 73 NE LITTLE YELDHAM 4/ll Red House 7.8.1952
II
House, early C17, extended in late C17 and C19. Timber framed, partly exposed, partly plastered, roofed with handmade red clay tiles. 6 bays aligned NE-SW, aspect SE, with rear wing of 3 bays at SW end, forming an L-plan with chimney stack at junction. Rear stack at NE end, with C19 extension beyond. Entrance/ stair hall between these wings, dated 1679. 2 storeys. The SE elevation has exposed framing, jettied with 7 scrolled brackets. C20 door, 4 C20 sash windows on ground floor, and 2 blocked original windows each with a single ovolo mullion. On first floor, 3 C20 sash windows and 2 small original windows. Hipped roof. The timber frame is exposed also on the SW elevation. The NW elevation of the stair hall has an Ipswich window and a carved facade gable with the inscription: 16 C 79 with lunettes and egg-and-dart soffit. The TS interior has an ovolo-moulded doorway (restored on one jamb), chamfered beams with lamb's tongue stops, and a hearth with depressed brick arch, repaired. An old photograph shows the SE elevation brick-nogged (Adrian Corder Birch: A History of Little Yeldham), but the nogging has been removed. The inscription relates to Thomas and Sarah Cracherode, 1679, whose memorials are in the chancel of the parish church. The farm was formerly called Goddinges. RCHM 4 (inscription wrongly recorded).
Listing NGR: TL7782239835
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 114462
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Corder Birch, A, A History of Little Yeldham, ()
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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