Chadwells Farmhouse
CHADWELLS FARMHOUSE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1338342
- Date first listed:
- 07-Aug-1952
- List Entry Name:
- Chadwells Farmhouse
- Statutory Address:
- CHADWELLS FARMHOUSE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1338342
- Date first listed:
- 07-Aug-1952
- List Entry Name:
- Chadwells Farmhouse
- Statutory Address 1:
- CHADWELLS 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:
- CHADWELLS FARMHOUSE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Essex
- District:
- Braintree (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Birdbrook
- National Grid Reference:
- TL 70750 42316
Details
TL 74 SW BIRDBROOK 3/6 Chadwells Farmhouse 7/8/52
II
House, early C17, extended in C20. Timber framed, plastered, roofed with handmade red clay tiles. Main range aligned approx. E-W with 2-bay crosswing at E end. Internal chimney stack at the junction, and external stack at W end. Ancillary building at W end combined with house in 1971, forming a second, longer crosswing, enclosing the last stack. Single-storey with attics. N elevation, door with tiled gabled hood, 4 casement windows, all C20. On first floor, 4 more, of which 2 are in flat-roofed dormers. Main chimney stack has sunk panel with inscription painted on plaster: 1631 MS ES 4 octagonal shafts rebuilt 1971. Some framing exposed internally. Jowled posts. Straight bracing trenched inside studs. Plain-chamfered axial beams with lamb's tongue stops in main range, plain-chamfered binding beam with more elaborate carved stops in crosswing. Some joists exposed, of horizontal section. Both chimney stacks original, but ground-floor hearths much altered. Clasped purlin roof. The name is first recorded in court rolls of 1293 as Caldewell (Essex Record Office D/DU 268, transcr. J.A. Buck. Deeds in the possession of the owner show that the farm of about 110 acres was bought by Martin Sparrow of Wixoe, gent, in 1622, and his initials appear on the chimney stack. E.S. has not been identified. There are farm maps of 1726, 1808 and 1844 in Essex Record Office. The history of the property from 1622 is described in P. Crouch: The Story of Chadwells Farm, Birdbrook, The Haverhill Historian 9 September 1981 and 10 May 1982 (copies in Suffolk Record Office).
Listing NGR: TL7075042316
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 114071
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Crouch, P, The Haverhill Historian in The Story Of Chadwells Farm Birdbrook, (1981)
Crouch, P, The Haverhill Historian in The Story Of Chadwells Farm Birdbrook, (1982)
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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