Moorings is a Grade II listed building in the Braintree local planning authority area, England. First listed on 29 July 1988. House. 3 related planning applications.
Moorings
- WRENN ID
- half-forge-clover
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Braintree
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 29 July 1988
- Type
- House
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Moorings is a house dating from around 1700, with alterations made in the 18th century. It has a timber frame, is plastered, and features a roof made of handmade red plain tiles. The house has three bays facing east, with a gable end towards the road and a central stack that creates a lobby entrance. There is an original service wing behind the left bay, which includes a 19th-century internal stack at the end. A two-storey lean-to extension is located in the rear right angle, roofed with corrugated asbestos. The building stands two storeys high with attics.
The east elevation displays a three-window range of early 20th-century casements. There is a central gable above the stair, which originally had a window that is now blocked and plastered over, with one early 20th-century casement in a hipped dormer on each side. The central entrance features a six-panel door with a doorcase that includes a pulvinated frieze, scrolled brackets, and a dentilled pediment, dating from the late 18th century.
On the south elevation, which faces the road, there are two early 20th-century casements on each floor, arranged irregularly, along with a central early 19th-century six-panel door. The top two panels of this door are glazed and it is set within an early 20th-century reproduction doorcase that mirrors the details of the entrance on the east elevation.
At the back of the house, beyond the rear wing, there is a small brick lean-to that likely served as a 19th-century bread oven, which is now blocked on the inside. Inside, there is an original winder stair that leads from the ground floor to the attics in front of the central stack. The main range features chamfered transverse beams with lamb's tongue stops in each bay, along with plain joists of vertical section. The rear wing has a chamfered axial beam and similar joists. The main frame is pegged, and the roof has clasped purlins with arched collars at half-bay intervals. The property was shown as Mill Farm on the 25-inch Ordnance Survey maps of 1875 and 1895.
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- No EPC on record for this property
- Sale history — 1 transaction since 1996
- Related listed building consents — 3 applications
- Detailed attributes — period, style, materials, features
- Flood risk assessment
- Radon risk assessment
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