Change House
CHANGE HOUSE, CHURCH ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1338031
- Date first listed:
- 07-Aug-1952
- List Entry Name:
- Change House
- Statutory Address:
- CHANGE HOUSE, CHURCH ROAD
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- Date:
- 2002-04-10
- Reference:
- IOE01/06550/32
- Rights:
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1338031
- Date first listed:
- 07-Aug-1952
- List Entry Name:
- Change House
- Statutory Address 1:
- CHANGE HOUSE, CHURCH 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:
- CHANGE HOUSE, CHURCH 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:
- TL7571838812
Details
TL 73 NE
4/39
7.8.1952
GREAT YELDHAM
CHURCH ROAD, East Side
Change House
GV
II
House, mainly C16, with C19 and early C20 additions. Timber framed, mainly
plastered with some weatherboarding, roofed with handmade red clay tiles.
Complex plan of irregular E-form, aspect SW, with 3 wings extending NE. One
internal chimney stack at SW end of middle wing, one at junction of SE wing
and middle range, external stacks at NE ends of 2 outside wings, and extensions
beyond. Stair tower between SE wing and middle wing. Other single-storey
extensions to NE. 2 storeys. SW elevation, 6-panel door in C20 doorcase with 2
columns and architrave, and 4-window range of C20 sashes. 2 original octagonal
shafts on SE internal stack, 2 C19/20 octagonal shafts on rear internal stack.
The interior has chamfered beams with lamb's tongue stops, and sections of early
C17 panelling on ground floor. The staircase has an octagonal newel post and
flat balusters, c.1600. The 2 first-floor rooms at the W corner comprise the
most valuable interior, with extremely wide curved braces trenched inside heavy
studding, but the floor below is rebuilt and the room below much altered.
Heavily weathered framing is exposed on both sides of the middle wing, now
enclosed within later extensions. All the roofs are of clasped purlin form.
RCHM 9.
Listing NGR: TL7571838812
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 114432
- 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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