Outbuilding to Rear of 5
OUTBUILDING TO REAR OF 5, ST JAMES STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1338067
- Date first listed:
- 15-Oct-1984
- List Entry Name:
- Outbuilding to Rear of 5
- Statutory Address:
- OUTBUILDING TO REAR OF 5, ST JAMES STREET
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1338067
- Date first listed:
- 15-Oct-1984
- List Entry Name:
- Outbuilding to Rear of 5
- Statutory Address 1:
- OUTBUILDING TO REAR OF 5, ST JAMES STREET
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:
- OUTBUILDING TO REAR OF 5, ST JAMES STREET
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Essex
- District:
- Braintree (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Castle Hedingham
- National Grid Reference:
- TL 78550 35573
Details
TL 78 35 CASTLE HEDINGHAM ST. JAMES STREET (NORTH SIDE) 8/112 Outbuilding to rear of No 5 15.10.84 GV II
Outbuilding, formerly a dwelling, of the C16 and later.
MATERIALS Timber-framed, rendered on the exterior, with part-slate and part-tiled roof.
PLAN Rectangular.
EXTERIOR The exposed framing comprises a mid-rail, wall posts of substantial scantling and studwork with straight through and halved bracing. At the ground floor of the east elevation, the upper part of an in situ arched door surround is apparent. On the west elevation there is an off-centre truncated external stack, with C20 door to the left (north) and two C19 windows at first floor level. The roof is a shallow gable with tiles on the eastern pitch and slate covering on the west.
INTERIOR Part of the wall framing comprising a wall post, studwork and through-bracing survives on the west. There are axial bridging beams of the C18 or later on the ground floor. A central C19 stair to the first floor has stick balusters. The C19 two room plan-form survives on the first floor and there is an early C19 hob grate in the left-hand room and a later C19 fireplace with brick surround and timber battened door in the other room. The bridging beam of the attic floor frame, two visible tie beams and the visible part of a wall plate are C19.
HISTORY Castle Hedingham is a typical castle town, lying below the castle built by the de Veres (later the Earls of Oxford) in c1140. In the centre was the church with a triangular market-place immediately to the east of it, now known as Falcon Square. The outbuilding lies at the rear of the properties fronting Falcon Square, King Street and St James Street. Its original function is unknown, but in the C19 it was used as a dwelling, accessed through an alley from St James Street. A C20 infill building serving as the village store has since blocked the thoroughfare, the land-locked outbuilding being used as a warehouse for the shop.
REASONS FOR DESIGNATION The outbuilding to the rear of 5 St James Street is listed at Grade II for the following principal reasons:
* Although it has suffered some loss of historic fabric and form, it retains a significant proportion of its original fabric.
* It has considerable group value with the listed buildings on Falcon Square, King Street and St James Street.
Listing NGR: TL7855035573
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 114627
- Legacy System:
- LBS
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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