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Latitude: 51.9533 / 51°57'11"N
Longitude: 0.5444 / 0°32'39"E
OS Eastings: 574946
OS Northings: 231366
OS Grid: TL749313
Mapcode National: GBR PGY.DGX
Mapcode Global: VHJJ4.D55G
Plus Code: 9F32XG3V+8Q
Entry Name: Readings Farmhouse
Listing Date: 17 March 1982
Last Amended: 19 March 1985
Grade: II
Source: Historic England
Source ID: 1123350
English Heritage Legacy ID: 115607
ID on this website: 101123350
Location: Braintree, Essex, CM7
County: Essex
District: Braintree
Civil Parish: Wethersfield
Traditional County: Essex
Lieutenancy Area (Ceremonial County): Essex
Church of England Parish: Wethersfield St Mary Magdalene
Church of England Diocese: Chelmsford
Tagged with: Farmhouse
TL 73 SW WETHERSFIELD BAKER'S FARM LANE
(east side)
1/93 Readings Farmhouse
17.3.82 (formerly listed under
Blackmore End)
- II
House. C.1600, altered in C19 and C20. Timber framed, plastered, roofed with
handmade red clay tiles. 4 bays facing SW, with internal stack in second bay
from left end against rear wall. Extended to left by one bay in C18/C19, with
C19 and C20 extensions to rear of it. One storey with attics. 3 horizontally
sliding sashes of 24 lights on ground floor, and 2 of 18 lights in gabled
dormers, all C20 accurate reproductions of C19 originals. C20 door. Original
sprockets below eaves at front and back. The interior has jowled posts, curved
tension braces trenched inside studs, chamfered axial beams with lamb's tongue
stops, plain joists of horizontal section, original floorboards. All floors
raised in 1983. Face-halved and bladed scarfs in wallplates, clasped purlin
roof. Large wood-burning hearth facing to right.
Listing NGR: TL7494631366
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