PETCHES BRIDGE OLD FARMHOUSE

PETCHES BRIDGE OLD FARMHOUSE, PETCHES BRIDGE ROAD

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1338164
Date first listed:: 17-May-1985
List Entry Name:: PETCHES BRIDGE OLD FARMHOUSE
Statutory Address:: PETCHES BRIDGE OLD FARMHOUSE, PETCHES BRIDGE ROAD

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Date:: 2007-11-21
Reference:: IOE01/17044/29
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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1338164
Date first listed:: 17-May-1985
List Entry Name:: PETCHES BRIDGE OLD FARMHOUSE
Statutory Address 1:: PETCHES BRIDGE OLD FARMHOUSE, PETCHES BRIDGE ROAD

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.

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This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

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.

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Location

Statutory Address:: PETCHES BRIDGE OLD FARMHOUSE, PETCHES BRIDGE ROAD

The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.

County:: Essex
District:: Braintree (District Authority)
Parish:: Finchingfield
National Grid Reference:: TL 69918 30875

Details

TL 63 SE FINCHINGFIELD FETCHES BRIDGE ROAD (west side)

3/71 Petches Bridge Old Farmhouse

- II

Wrongly shown on O.S. map as Southcotts. House. Mid C16, extended in early C17 and C20. Timber framed, plastered with some exposed framing, roofed with handmade red clay tiles. 2 bays aligned N-S, mid C16, possibly the crosswing of a hall house of which the remainder has disappeared. 2-bay extension to S, early C17, with internal stack at the junction, against E wall. Present entrance elevation to E. C20 single-storey extension to front of left end, C20 semi-circular conservatory to rear. 2 storeys. Ground floor, 2 C20 casements, first floor 3 C20 casements. C20 door at front of tiled gabled porch. Right end of roof hipped. Exposed close studding on right return wall, and original sprockets there and at rear. Exposed studding on left return wall, with some replacement timber. The interior has jowled posts, chamfered axial beams, plain joists (of large horizontal section in right bays, smaller square section in left end). At right end, exposed studding with curved tension braces trenched to the inside, a complete unglazed window with 3 diamond mullions, and a crownpost roof formerly having shallow axial braces (replaced in modern timber). At left end, clasped purlin roof.

Listing NGR: TL6991830875

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Legacy System number:: 115213
Legacy System:: LBS

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This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.