LATCHLEYS FARMHOUSE

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II*
List Entry Number:: 1338362
Date first listed:: 07-Aug-1952
List Entry Name:: LATCHLEYS FARMHOUSE
Statutory Address:: LATCHLEYS FARMHOUSE

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II*
List Entry Number:: 1338362
Date first listed:: 07-Aug-1952
Date of most recent amendment:: 16-May-1984
List Entry Name:: LATCHLEYS FARMHOUSE
Statutory Address 1:: LATCHLEYS FARMHOUSE

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:: LATCHLEYS FARMHOUSE

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

County:: Essex
District:: Braintree (District Authority)
Parish:: Steeple Bumpstead
National Grid Reference:: TL 67124 39598

Details

TL 63 NE STEEPLE BUMPSTEAD 4/1 Latchleys Farmhouse 7/8/52 (formerly listed as Larchleys Manor House) GV II*

Manor house, c.1520, extended in C17 and C18, altered in C20. Timber framed, plastered, roofed with handmade red clay tiles. 5-bay range aligned N-S, jettied to the W, with external chimney stack on E wall of second bay from S. 3-bay range to W of N end with chimney stack at the junction, c.1600, and stair tower in SW angle. Smaller C17/18 extensions to E of main range. C18 extension to W of W wing. Jetty of original range partly enclosed, underbuilt elsewhere. 2 storeys and cellar. S elevations, one 6-panel door, one 4-panel door, 8 C20 casement windows. First floor, 8 C20 casement windows. Roof of stair tower hipped. C19 scalloped bargeboards on S gable. Grouped diagonal shafts on central chimney stack. C17 carved bargeboards on W end of W wing, much weathered. The interior has jowled posts and curved braces trenched inside heavy studding. The original range has cambered tiebeams with one surviving pair of braces forming a depressed arch, edge-halved and bridled scarfs in the wallplates, and a clasped purlin roof with arch-braced collars and curved wind bracing, with a ceiling inserted c.1600. The N ground-floor room of 2 bays has transverse and axial beams with double ogee mouldings, carved running foliage, and carved bosses of roses, pomegranates and other devices. The room to the S, originally of 2 bays, has plain-chamfered beams, and the hearth contains a late C17 cast iron fireback representing Neptune and mermaids, etc. (recorded in another room by the RCHM). The S bay is a short one, originally partitioned off but now combined with the next room. Part of the jetty is exposed internally, with one plain brace and very wide joists jointed to the axial beam and soffit tenons with diminished haunches (Hewett 1980, figure 303). The W wing has very high rooms at both levels; blocked dormers in the N pitch of the roof indicate that the attic was designed for occupation. The wallplates have face-halved and bladed scarfs; the roof is of clasped purlin construction. The staircase is of early C17 date, with a well, square newels, large turned balusters, a heavy moulded rail, and a broad string with bolection-moulded diamonds. A number of interior features recorded by the RCHM are not now present. Tapestry from the house is at Saffron Walden Museum. The inclusion of pomegranates in the carving allows the earlier part of the house to be closely dated to the period between the coronation of Catherine of Aragon in 1509 and her fall from the King's favour in 1526; this is consistent with all other physical features, and forms a valuable check on dating methods in use in Essex. RCHM 7.

Listing NGR: TL6712439598

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Legacy System number:: 114174
Legacy System:: LBS

Sources

Books and journals
Hewett, C A , English Historic Carpentry, (1980)

Legal

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