Polstead's Farmhouse
POLSTEAD'S FARMHOUSE, FISHPITS LANE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1338112
- Date first listed:
- 12-Nov-1984
- List Entry Name:
- Polstead's Farmhouse
- Statutory Address:
- POLSTEAD'S FARMHOUSE, FISHPITS LANE
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- Reference:
- IOE01/04719/35
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1338112
- Date first listed:
- 12-Nov-1984
- List Entry Name:
- Polstead's Farmhouse
- Statutory Address 1:
- POLSTEAD'S FARMHOUSE, FISHPITS LANE
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:
- POLSTEAD'S FARMHOUSE, FISHPITS LANE
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 87709 32871
Details
BURES HAMLET FISHPITS LANE TL 83 SE (east side) 4/41 Polstead's Farmhouse II House. Late C16. Timber framed, plastered, roofed with handmade red clay tiles. 4 bays facing SW, with axial chimney stack one bay from right end. C20 in-line extension to left. 2 storeys. 5-window range of C20 casements. C20 door in C15 moulded doorcase with 4-centred arched head, introduced from The Angel Inn, Kelvedon. On upper floor of right return wall, original window with 2 ovolo mullions; C20 reproduction window below it. The interior has jowled posts and heavy studding. In right bay, lodged floor of longitudinal plain joists of horizontal section. In middle room, transverse beam with plain joists of horizontal section. Face-halved and bladed scarf in wallplate. Roof of clasped purlin construction with original partition of wattle and daub. This house was formerly occupied by Harry Forrester, author of 'Timber Framed Houses of Essex', 'The Smaller Queen Anne and Georgian House', 'Medieval Gothic Mouldings', etc., who was responsible for the introduction of the C15 doorway.
Listing NGR: TL8770932871
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 114830
- 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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