Stours Farmhouse is a Grade II listed building in the Braintree local planning authority area, England. First listed on 29 August 1984. House. 8 related planning applications.

Stours Farmhouse

WRENN ID
ruined-vestry-sparrow
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Braintree
Country
England
Date first listed
29 August 1984
Type
House
Source
Historic England listing

Description

Stours Farmhouse is a house dating from around 1600, with extensions added in the 19th and 20th centuries. It is timber-framed, with plaster infill and a roof of handmade red clay tiles. The house has four bays arranged roughly east to west. An axial chimney stack is located in the second bay from the west end; this originally created a lobby-entrance to the north, but is now blocked. A rear wing extends to the south of this stack, with a further chimney stack at its end. A short 19th-century extension projects from the rear, and there is a single-storey, 20th-century lean-to extension in the southeast angle.

The north elevation has two 20th-century casement windows on the ground floor. The first floor features one 19th-century, eight-light, horizontally sliding sash window, and one 20th-century casement window.

Inside, the house retains original features including jowled posts, curved bracing, trenched inside heavy studding, and plain-chamfered beams with run-out stops, described as having lamb's tongue stops. An original post with a rounded square knob is located at the foot of the staircase.

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