Description

TM 13 SW
3/265

MISTLEY
GREEN LANE
Dairy House, Dairy Cottage and attached stables

GV
II

Farmhouse, now 2 dwellings, and attached stables. c.1777. Flemish bond red
brick; double-gabled roof with old plain tiles to front and slates to rear;
brick ridge and end stacks. Double-depth plan. 2 storeys with cellar; 8-window
range. Steps down to cellar, with wrought-iron handrail. Mid C20 gabled timber
porch and cambered gauged brick arch over C19 plank door set in beaded architrave
to Dairy House on right; timber lintel over C19 plank door with overlight
Set in beaded architrave to Dairy Cottage on left. Cambered gauged brick arches
over 12-pane sashes; dentilled brick eaves over similar first-floor sashes.
Similar sashes, C19 casements and plank door to rear. Interior of Dairy House:
mid C18 panelled shutters and doors; mid C18 fireplaces; open-well staircase with
stick balusters to rear; room to left has corner cupboard flanked by pilasters;
plank door to kitchen on right which has moulded mantle shelf over blocked fire-
place, copper, bread oven and mid C18 shelving on carved brackets. Interior of
Dairy Cottage not inspected. Subsidiary features; stables to left of Flemish
bond brick with old plain tile, corrugated iron and Roman tile gabled roof.
Double-depth plan. One storey and loft; 4-window range. Gauged brick cambered
arches over 2 C20 stable doors; gauged brick lunettes blocked and with mid C20
inserted window to left; plank doors set in raking half-dormers; raised eaves
course. Bay to left has weather-board over timber frame. Interior: chamfered
beams. History: this building, together with the dairy, brewhouse and cowhouse
(q.v.) was built in about 1777 for the Rigby family of Mistley Hall; they are
shown as part of complex entitled "Farmhouse, Offices and Co" in the area of the
estate known as the Park on Bernard Scale's 1778 map (now in Essex Records
office).

Listing NGR: TM1139231170

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26551974

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Recommended Books

• 
  Setting up a Listed Building Heritage Partnership Agreement: Historic England Advice Note 5
• 
  Lancashire: Liverpool and the South-West (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  London 6: Westminster (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England): Westminster v. 6
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  Wiltshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
• 
  Building Small Projects (New Best of Fine Woodworking)
• 
  This Old House: Restoring, Rehabilitating, and Renovating an Older House