Fisher'S Farmhouse is a Grade II listed building in the Braintree local planning authority area, England. First listed on 19 March 1986. A Early Modern House. 3 related planning applications.

Fisher'S Farmhouse

WRENN ID
rough-loggia-stoat
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Braintree
Country
England
Date first listed
19 March 1986
Type
House
Period
Early Modern
Source
Historic England listing

Description

Fisher's Farmhouse is a house dating to the 16th and 17th centuries, with alterations made in the early 19th century. It is timber-framed and has plaster walls and a roof of handmade red clay tiles. The main range, a three-bay structure, faces east and has an early 19th-century axial stack in the right bay. To the left is a two-bay crosswing, also from the early 17th century, which extends to the rear, with a 19th-century central stack. A 20th-century flat-roofed two-storey extension is located in the rear angle, and an 18th or 19th-century single-storey extension has a central stack behind the right end of the main range.

The ground floor features two early 19th-century sashes with 20 lights each, and one slatted larder window. The first floor has sashes with 20, 20, 12 and 16 lights respectively. In the larder at the right end of the main range, the floor is of early brick. The main range was originally a single storey and was raised approximately 1.50 metres in the 18th or 19th century.

The inserted floor in the early 17th-century crosswing has chamfered axial and transverse beams with run-out stops, and joists (plastered to the soffits) supported on pegged clamps. A pair of curved braces rise at a shallow angle to support the middle of the floor, featuring Jacobean fretted ornament and a moulded square boss at the apex where they meet the axial beam. The framing includes jowled posts, close studding with arched braces trenched to the inside. In the crosswing, the lower jowls are ornamented with elaborate mouldings, and one features a carved design of a diamond within a diamond, which has been defaced. The right girt has dentils carved in the solid, a rare feature. Close studding is partly exposed. Remains of frieze windows are visible at both levels at the front; the small side windows are blocked, but likely intact, while the central windows have been replaced with early 19th-century sashes. Original rebated floorboards remain. Both roofs have been rebuilt in softwood.

A map of 1777 by Chapman and Andr'e depicts the farm as "New House." The farmhouse exhibits unusual Jacobean ornament.

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