Description

FEERING LITTLE TEY ROAD TL 82 SE (west side)

3/105 Poplar Hall Farmhouse

II

House. C15 and C17. Timber framed, plastered, roofed with handmade red plain tiles. C17 main range facing SW, of one storey with attics, and C15 crosswing to right, of 2 storeys, extending to rear; C20 internal stack at the junction; C20 small extension with catslide roof in rear angle. Ground floor, 2 C20 bow windows. First floor, one C20 casement, and one more in flat-roofed dormer. C20 half-glazed door at front of gabled porch. The crosswing is jettied to the front, with one plain bracket remaining. At the rear it has on the first floor one C19 horizontal sash of 2 + 2 lights, and a gablet hip. The crosswing structure is mainly concealed by plaster on the ground floor; on the upper floor the frame is exposed internally, with jowled posts, curved braces trenched outside heavy close studding, a cambered central tiebeam with one arched brace exposed, another probably present within an inserted partition. Roof difficult of access, probably of crownpost construction; the rafters of the original rear hip are visible externally. The range to left has unjowled posts, thinner wallplates, one chamfered transverse beam with lamb's tongue stops, and plain joists of square section; the roof is of clasped purlin construction; many rafters are smoke-blackened and re-used, with unsooted pegs at the apex. 2 small C20 hearths. Shown on 1843 tithe map as Old House Farm (Essex Record Office D/CT 137). RCHM 14.

Listing NGR: TL8810021382

External Links

• Wikidata Q26622008

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Recommended Books

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  Bristol (Pevsner Architectural Guides: City Guides)
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  Period property manual, victorian house manual 2 books collection set by ian rock
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  Listed Buildings: The Law and Practice of History Buildings, Ancient Monuments and Conservation Areas
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  The Listed Buildings and Other Principal Structures at the Royal Gunpowder Mills Waltham Abbey
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  Warwickshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  ENGLAND GUIDE TO POST WAR LISTED: A Guide to Post-war Listed Buildings