Russell'S Farmhouse

TL 73 SW 1/110 21.12.67

WETHERSFIELD BRAINTREE ROAD (west side) Russell's Farmhouse

GV II

House. C16, altered in early C19. Timber framed, roughcast rendered, roofed with slate. 4 bays facing NE, with axial stack one bay from left end, internal stack at right end, C19 external stack at left end, and wing of 3 bays behind right end, forming an L-plan. 2 storeys. Ground floor, 3 early C19 sashes of 16 lights. First floor, 4 C18 casements (3 of 3 lights, one of 2 lights) each with one wrought iron casement and rectangular leading. 6-panel door, the top 2 panels glazed, in pilastered and pedimented doorcase, early C19. Moulded cornice, returning approx. 1 metre round ends. Low-pitched roof with long overhang. The main range has one roll-moulded axial beam, one boxed axial beam, one chamfered transverse beam with lamb's tongue stops. The first floor has been raised approx. 0.50 metre, and the walls have been raised approx. 2 metres to create a high upper storey. Internal tiebeams removed. The rear range has chamfered axial beams, and late C18 windows similar to those at the front.

Listing NGR: TL7127030945