Bullocks Cross Farmhouse is a Grade II listed building in the Braintree local planning authority area, England. Farmhouse. 4 related planning applications.
Bullocks Cross Farmhouse
- WRENN ID
- peeling-courtyard-ebony
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Braintree
- Country
- England
- Type
- Farmhouse
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Bullocks Cross Farmhouse is a house dating from around 1580, with alterations made in the 18th and 20th centuries. It has a timber frame that is plastered and weatherboarded, topped with a roof of handmade red plain tiles. The house consists of three bays arranged approximately northwest to southeast, featuring an original external stack to the northeast of the southeast bay and an 18th-century external stack to the southwest of the northwest bay. There is an 18th-century lean-to extension along most of the southwest elevation, which nearly forms a catslide with the main roof. The building is two storeys high with an unlit attic.
On the northeast elevation, there is a two-window range of 20th-century casements and a 20th-century door. All other windows are also 20th-century casements. The southwest elevation has a plain boarded door. The main building jetties to the southeast, showcasing an exposed bressumer and one scrolled bracket, while the rest is covered. The structure features jowled posts and heavy studding. There is an original studded partition on both floors between the northwest bay and the rest of the house, with an inserted stair located immediately to the southeast of it. A chamfered binding beam with lamb's tongue stops connects the other bays, and plain joists of approximately square section are jointed to it with soffit tenons and diminished haunches. The northwest bay is ceiled, and there are 20th-century grates in both wood-burning hearths.
On the first floor, there is some evidence of a former oriel window over the jetty, and in the southwest wall, an original window has been blocked by the added stack, featuring two ovolo mullions. The floorboards are made of rebated hardwood. In the northwest gable, there is a blocked original window with two diamond mortices. The attic is floored, and the roof has clasped purlins with straight wind-bracing. This farmhouse appears to be the crosswing of a hall house that once extended to the northeast or southwest.
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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- No sale records on file
- Related listed building consents — 4 applications
- Detailed attributes — period, style, materials, features
- Flood risk assessment
- Radon risk assessment
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