Raylands
RAYLANDS, ACRELAND GREEN
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1376015
- Date first listed:
- 07-Aug-1998
- List Entry Name:
- Raylands
- Statutory Address:
- RAYLANDS, ACRELAND GREEN
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1376015
- Date first listed:
- 07-Aug-1998
- List Entry Name:
- Raylands
- Statutory Address 1:
- RAYLANDS, ACRELAND GREEN
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:
- RAYLANDS, ACRELAND GREEN
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Essex
- District:
- Uttlesford (District Authority)
- Parish:
- High Easter
- National Grid Reference:
- TL6408114459
Details
TL61SW HIGH EASTER ACRELAND GREEN
476/3/10001 'Raylands'
II
Hall house. Late C1S, hall wing floored and remodelled C17, extended 1993-4. Plastered and whitewashed timber frame; plaintile roofs.
EXTERIOR: north front with 3 2-storeyed projecting gabled elements. To left is jettied solar wing at right angles to the hall. One 3-light Crittall window of early 1930s to each floor. All other windows are similar Crittall casements, except to the east gable. Central gable added C1S to take staircase: 2-light casement immediately below a 4-light casement. Between these 2 gables is a gabled C20 timber porch in front of a C20 plank door flanked by one single-light casement either side. Jettied east gable of 1993-4: ground-floor timber bay window and a 3- light top-hung timber window to first floor. Cruciform C17 ridge stack left of centre and single-flued stack to east end. Rear is S-window range; 2-storeys and attic. One gable to right and left of elevation, flush with main walls. Fenestration of 2, 3 and 4-light Crittall windows. Wide hipped open patio roof right of centre of 1993-4.
INTERIOR: oak open-string staircase with twisted balusters inserted 1993- 4, returning as balustrade to first-floor corridor landing. Solar wing with intact timber frame including a reused chamfered bridging beam with tongue stops, middle rail and an arched brace at the north-west corner. C17 fireplace rebuilt in C1S brick. Chamfered jambs and chamfered bressummer. First floor of solar divided into 2 rooms, each with a crown purlin in the roof supported on arched braces to 3 crown posts. Room west of hall with wide fireplace with C17 bricks, chamfered jambs and a chamfered bressummer with tongue stops. Chamfered spine beam with tongue stops. Bridging beam at right angles at west end. Further east is kitchen of 1993-4, with the former gable wall removed. Bedroom above former hall with exposed timber frame and one blocked 2-light C17 ovolo- moulded mullioned timber window. Main east-west roof of C17 common rafters, collars and clasped purlins.
Listing NGR: TL6408114459
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 470001
- Legacy System:
- LBS
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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