Description

TL 31NW STANSTEAD ABBOTS HOLLYCROSS ROAD
(east side)
5/18 Farmhouse and attached
Dairy at Easneye Dairy
Farm
470 metres NE of mansion

GV II

Farmhouse and attached ornamental dairy. Circa. 1868 by
Waterhouse for T F Buxton of Easneye. Red brick with diapering
of black headers. Tilehung upper floor of farmhouse. Steep red
tile roofs. T-plan 2-storeys farmhouse with single storey rear
range linking to a tall single-storey octagonal buttressed
ornamental dairy at NE. Entrance to both through a recessed
logia on the N with blind pointed arcading on rear wall and 3-bay
arched braced timber front under an extension of the tiled roof.
Farmhouse jettied on N on moulded brick corbells with moulded
bressumer and bargeboard to gable over. Small wooden casements
under segmental arches. Cusped tilehanging in apex of gable.
Clustered octagonal shafts to tall central chimney. The design
is similar to Waterhouses's Double Lodge for Easneye of 1866
(q.v.). Dairy has 3-light chamfered brick traceried windows with
leaded glazing in cathedral glass under a single equilatereral
arch on 4 front faces. Diagonal buttresses with tumbled brick
offsets, moulded plinth and string course and corbelled
ornamental eaves courses, supporting a cast iron gutter trough.
Finial and 4 small gabled vents. Interior of dairy vaulted with
stone ribs rising from corbels and red and black brick panels
below a moulded string at high sill level blue tiling with
impressed Gothic geometric pattern down to white marble bench all
round supported on chamfered timber brackets with cooling pipes
under. Deep ornamental band at top of tiling of oxblood slips
and white on blue flower scroll with frieze of lobed geometric
pattern tiles in blue. Encaustic tile pattern floor, mainly red
with black net and buff junctions. Border of diamond set black
tiles on white ground with red and buff bands each side. An
impressive picturesque group. The ornamental dairy is of
exceptional interest.

Listing NGR: TL3836213813

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26301105

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Recommended Books

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  Essex: Buildings of England Series (Buildings of England) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Old House Handbook: A Practical Guide to Care and Repair
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  Listed Buildings, Conservation Areas and Monuments
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  Northamptonshire: Buildings of England Series (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Specifications for Building Conservation: Volume 1: External Structure: Practical Examples v. 2
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  Somerset: North and Bristol: The Buildings of England (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)