Description

CRESSING WITHAM ROAD
TL 71 NE (east side)

4/71 Cressing Temple
2.5.53 Farmhouse

GV II

House. Late C16, altered in C18 and C19. Timber framed, plastered and
roughcast, roofed with handmade red plain tiles. Main range facing SE with
axial stack near middle and external stack at right end. Crosswing at left end,
forming a T-plan, with central stack. Early C19 extension in front angle, with
lean-to roof of slate. 2 C20 gabled extensions to rear, with 2 catslide
extensions. C19 single-storey extension to rear right, forming a lean-to at
right end, of painted brick in Flemish bond, roofed with red clay pantiles. 2
storeys. The SW elevation has a 4-window range,of early C20 sashes of 4 lights.
The SE elevation has on the first floor of the crosswing one C19 casement, and
on the first floor of the lean-to to right of it, one early C19 sash of 16
lights. The main range has on the ground floor 5 early C19 sashes of 16 lights
and one C20 reproduction; and on the first floor 4 early c19 sashes of 4 + 8
lights with crown glass. In lean-to, C20 door in early C19 Tuscan portico with
2 columns, 2 pilasters and moulded entablature with panelled soffit. In main
range, C20 door with early C19 simple architrave and canopy. The plaster is
ashlared. Rusticated quoins of plaster on right return only to right of
portico. Interior mainly plastered, little of frame visible except jowled
posts. Axial beams boxed in. Oak panelling of c.1600. Clasped purlin roof.
Bread oven at NE end. This may be the surviving part of a mansion described as
'the Greate House' in records of 1623 and 1669, but reported as a site in 1675
(J.H. Hope, 'The Knights Templars and the excavations at the Cressing Temple,
1978-1981', Essex Journal vol. 2, no. 2, Summer 1986, 31-4). RCHM 3.

Listing NGR: TL7991818724

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26462115

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Recommended Books

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  Derbyshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Lancashire: Liverpool and the South-West (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Nottinghamshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Old House Handbook: A Practical Guide to Care and Repair by Hunt. Roger ( 2008 ) Hardcover
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  Berkshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  London 3: North West: North West v. 3 (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)