Description

Colliers End
TL 37 20 STANDON GORE LANE
(north side)

8/13 Plashes Farm
(Formerly listed as Plashes
4.10.83 Farmhouse)

GV II

Farmhouse. Early C17. S range possibly rather earlier,
additions to front in early C18. Timber frame roughcast with old
red tile roofs and brick sill. A T-plan house facing E with
crosswing on S and single-storey kitchen on N end, with later
pantiled and weatherboarded lean-to on its rear. Wide C18 gabled
wing built on front in angle of projecting S wing with main
range. Single-storey C19 timber porch and rustic verandah with
fishscale slate hipped roof on E face of S wing wrapped round the
S corner. A post supports an overhanging stair projection in the
rear angle of the projecting S wing with the main range.
Crosswing has 2 rooms with large central chimney. Small central
window on S wall possibly for former stair. Parlour on E has
later cellar below. Main range has a staircase and 2 unheated
rooms with passage running through to kitchen on N end. C18
front wing has narrow entrance hall leading to staircase giving a
centralised plan. A bedroom and attic over. Front has flush box
sash windows with 6/6 panes, 3 above one another in E end of S
wing, 2 on the upper floor of the C18 gabled extension, and one
to the right of the wooden porch on the ground floor. The
entrance with panelled door and hooded doorcase is in the re-
entrant angle on the right. S side of S wing has 2 buttresses
and stepped underpinning to the brick sill and 2 flush box sash
windows on each floor, one each side of the small stair window in
line with the central chimney. 6/6 panes to the upper floor, 6/3
panes. and 8/8 panes to the ground floor. (RCHM Typescript)

Listing NGR: TL3796520334

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26396413

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Recommended Books

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  Oxfordshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Northamptonshire: Buildings of England Series (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Old House Handbook: A Practical Guide to Care and Repair
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  Herefordshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Farrow & Ball How to Decorate: Transform your home with paint & paper
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  The Listed Buildings and Other Principal Structures at the Royal Gunpowder Mills Waltham Abbey