Kendalls is a Grade II* listed building in the Braintree local planning authority area, England. First listed on 13 March 1986. House.

Kendalls

WRENN ID
tall-footing-sedge
Grade
II*
Local Planning Authority
Braintree
Country
England
Date first listed
13 March 1986
Type
House
Source
Historic England listing

Description

TL 7614 TERLING NORMAN HILL (north side)

10/136 Kendalls

GV II*

House. Mid-C16. Timber framed, plastered, roofed with handmade red clay tiles. Main range of 3 short bays facing SE, with stack in right bay against rear wall, and 2-bay crosswing to right. Single-storey lean-to extension to rear of crosswing, partly weatherboarded, with catslide roof. C20 single-storey extension to rear of left bay. 2 storeys. 2-window range of C20 casements. Plain boarded door with one small light. Roof of crosswing hipped at rear. Originally jettied along the full length of the front elevation, now underbuilt. Jowled posts, close studding with curved braces trenched to the inside. All posts, girts and wallplates chamfered with step stops. In main range, chamfered axial and transverse beams, joists plastered to the soffits, blocked unglazed windows with shutter grooves, one tiebeam missing, large wood-burning hearth (reduced for modern stove) forming a lobby-entrance. In crosswing, chamfered binding beam with step stops, and joists of horizontal section chamfered with step stops both inside and outside former jetty. Blocked unglazed windows with shutter grooves. Both crownpost roofs almost complete, the posts and collar-purlin chamfered with step stops. This is an exceptionally well-finished small house of 1550-75, with minimal alteration. RCHM 19.

Listing NGR: TL7664014915

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