Cornish Hall Farmhouse
CORNISH HALL FARMHOUSE, CORNISH HALL END
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1338175
- Date first listed:
- 02-May-1953
- List Entry Name:
- Cornish Hall Farmhouse
- Statutory Address:
- CORNISH HALL FARMHOUSE, CORNISH HALL END
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- Reference:
- IOE01/07269/11
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1338175
- Date first listed:
- 02-May-1953
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 17-May-1985
- List Entry Name:
- Cornish Hall Farmhouse
- Statutory Address 1:
- CORNISH HALL FARMHOUSE, CORNISH HALL END
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:
- CORNISH HALL FARMHOUSE, CORNISH HALL END
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 68416 35709
Details
TL 63 NE FINCHINGFIELD CORNISH HALL END (west side)
1/27 Cornish Hall Farmhouse 2.5.53 (Formerly listed as Cornish Hall)
II
House. C16, altered in C18. Timber framed, plastered, roofed with handmade red clay tiles. 4 bays facing S, mid-C16, with axial stack in second bay from right end. Extended to left by one short bay, c.1600. Wing extending forwards by 2 bays from left end, c.1600, with internal stack at the junction and shorter extension to rear, forming an irregular T-plan. Single-storey lean-to extension to rear of main range. 2 storeys. 3-window range of C20 casements. C20 door in gabled porch. The main stack has 2 chamfered recessed panels and 4 octagonal shafts with moulded bases. Roof of left wing hipped at front, with plaster coving below eaves, C18. At left end of main range, ovolo-moulded bargeboards, c.1600. In right gable, C18 3-light window with casement replaced. The interior of the main range has chamfered axial and transverse beams, chamfered joists of horizontal section, and one transverse beam to left of the stack with lamb's-tongue-and-bar stops; some original floorboards, jowled posts, close studding, clasped purlin roof with arched wind-bracing, including some re-used medieval rafters; and a moulded oak door. The left wing has in the right wall some exposed close studding and an original window with 4 ovolo mullions. Joists of horizontal section, some original oak panelling and C18 pine panelling, and a clasped purlin roof. Moated site. RCHM 4.
Listing NGR: TL6841635709
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 115170
- 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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