Elms Farmhouse
ELMS FARMHOUSE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1338020
- Date first listed:
- 09-Jun-1981
- List Entry Name:
- Elms Farmhouse
- Statutory Address:
- ELMS FARMHOUSE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1338020
- Date first listed:
- 09-Jun-1981
- List Entry Name:
- Elms Farmhouse
- Statutory Address 1:
- ELMS FARMHOUSE
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:
- ELMS FARMHOUSE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Essex
- District:
- Braintree (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Toppesfield
- National Grid Reference:
- TL 72649 38006
Details
TL 73 NW TOPPESFIELD 3/2 Elms Farmhouse 9.6.81 II House, C16, altered in C18 and C19. Timber framed, plastered, roofed with handmade red clay tiles. 3 bays aligned NE-SW with axial chimney stack, and external chimney stack at NE end, upper half rebuilt in C20. 3-bay crosswing to SW with external chimney stack on SW wall. Both parts were jettied to the SE originally, now underbuilt. Aspect SE. Stair tower behind NE end with gabled roof, single-storey extension behind SW bay of main range, and lean-to between, forming a catslide roof. Single-storey extension to SW. 2 storeys with attics. 6-panel flush door, the top panels glazed, 2 C20 casement windows one double-hung sash window of 12 lights, and 2 C19 bays of sash windows. First floor, one C19 oriel with tented roof, one bay over bay below, and 2 sash windows of 4 lights, late C19. Axial chimney stack has 3 octagonal shafts, shortened. The interior has some exposed framing, one original unglazed window with 4 diamond mullions in the rear wall, and in the crosswing one beam with single ogee moulding and chamfered joists of horizontal section with lamb's tongue stops. The first floor of the crosswing has straight rising braces inside the studs, and an original window in the SW wall, with 3 ovolo mullions and 3 diamond bars. RCHM 11.
Listing NGR: TL7264938006
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 114482
- 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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