Dial House Inn
DIAL HOUSE INN, 173, BRADFORD STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1338247
- Date first listed:
- 25-Oct-1951
- List Entry Name:
- Dial House Inn
- Statutory Address:
- DIAL HOUSE INN, 173, BRADFORD STREET
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1338247
- Date first listed:
- 25-Oct-1951
- List Entry Name:
- Dial House Inn
- Statutory Address 1:
- DIAL HOUSE INN, 173, BRADFORD 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:
- DIAL HOUSE INN, 173, BRADFORD STREET
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Essex
- District:
- Braintree (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Non Civil Parish
- National Grid Reference:
- TL 76194 24284
Details
885 BRADFORD STREET
(West Side) BOCKING
No 173.
25.10.51. Dial House Inn.
TL 7624 3/29
GV II*
An early C17 timber-framed and plastered house, probably 1603 (the date carved
on one of the bressumers), with a timber framed addition on the west end, weather boarded on the lst storey and painted brick on the ground storey. 2 storeys, attics and cellars. The south front of Dial House Inn has a jet tied upper storey on a carved bressumer. The east side has a jet tied upper storey with a jet tied gable above, both on carved bressumers. The upper bressumer is carried on carved scroll brackets and bears the date 1603 and the lower one is on carved brackets. There is some exposed timber-framing (now painted) and an original mullioned window (blocked) under the lst storey jetty. No 173 has 1 window range and Dial House Inn has 3 window range, double hung sashes with glazing bars in flush cased frames. The outer windows on the lst storey are 3 light and the ground storey has 3-iight bays. A central 6 panel door with architrave has a late C17 flat wooden canopy on pierced and shaped brackets. Roofs t!le.d. RCHI-1 (21).
Listing NGR: TL7619424284
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 113666
- 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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