Ancillary Building 15 Metres North West of Ferriers Farmhouse
ANCILLARY BUILDING 15 METRES NORTH WEST OF FERRIERS FARMHOUSE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1338087
- Date first listed:
- 12-Nov-1984
- List Entry Name:
- Ancillary Building 15 Metres North West of Ferriers Farmhouse
- Statutory Address:
- ANCILLARY BUILDING 15 METRES NORTH WEST OF FERRIERS FARMHOUSE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1338087
- Date first listed:
- 12-Nov-1984
- List Entry Name:
- Ancillary Building 15 Metres North West of Ferriers Farmhouse
- Statutory Address 1:
- ANCILLARY BUILDING 15 METRES NORTH WEST OF FERRIERS 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:
- ANCILLARY BUILDING 15 METRES NORTH WEST OF FERRIERS FARMHOUSE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Essex
- District:
- Braintree (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Bures Hamlet
- National Grid Reference:
- TL 89500 33803
Details
BURES HAMLET TL 83 SE 4/27 Ancillary building 15 metres north-west of Ferriers Farmhouse GV It Ancillary building, probably a court house, now garages and stores. Mid to late C16. Timber framed, weatherboarded with some secondary brick infill, roofed with handmade red clay tiles. 6 bays aligned approx. E-W, facing S. C19 lean-to extension at E end with corrugated iron roof. 2 storeys with attic. 2 garage doors, 2 plain boarded doors on ground floor and one on first floor, scattered fenestration, not original. Hipped gablet at W end. The ground floor was originally divided into 3 sections of 2 bays each, open at the E end, now further sub-divided. The first floor is divided by one original partition into a hall of 4 bays open to the roof, and a room of 2 bays at the E end with original ceiling and loft. Heavy studding, thin straight braces trenched inside the end walls, jowled posts, complete set of cranked braces to 4 cambered tie beams. Floor structure complete and original in 2 E bays, wholly rebuilt in W bay, elsewhere with original beams but the joists re-set. Some moulded joists, probably from Ferriers Farmhouse, re-set on edge. Unglazed windows on first floor with grooves in wallplate for sliding shutters. One N window is complete with 3 diamond mullions, another retains 2 of 3 mullions. Sliding shutters in situ. Edge-halved and bridled scarfs in wallplates. Some original wattle and daub in N wall, E gable, and first floor partition. Principal rafters reduced for side purlins on high straight collars. Cranked wind- bracing, complete. This building is of exceptional historical interest, and although much altered on the ground floor, has remained substantially unaltered above.
Listing NGR: TL8950033803
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 114816
- 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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