Hunt'S Farmhouse is a Grade II listed building in the Braintree local planning authority area, England. First listed on 21 December 1967. House.
Hunt'S Farmhouse
- WRENN ID
- muffled-chimney-bone
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Braintree
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 21 December 1967
- Type
- House
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Hunt's Farmhouse is a house that dates from the 17th century or earlier. It is timber framed and plastered, with a roof made of handmade red clay tiles. The main part of the house has three bays and faces southeast, featuring an axial stack near the left end. At the right end, there is a two-bay crosswing with an axial stack near the rear.
Attached to the left side of the main range is a late 18th century or early 19th century cottage, which has one axial stack and another stack in the left return wall. There is also a small single-storey lean-to extension at the back of the cottage, topped with a zinc roof. A large lean-to shed with a corrugated asbestos roof is located at the rear of both the main house and part of the cottage.
The farmhouse has two storeys and an attic, while the cottage has one storey with attics. On the ground floor, there are four 20th-century casement windows and 20th-century French windows. The first floor features three 20th-century casement windows and an additional one in a flat-roofed dormer. In the attic, there is a single 20th-century casement window in a gabled roof dormer. The crosswing has a concertina stack.
The cottage has a gambrel roof with 19th-century grouped diagonal shafts on the main stack. There is an underbuilt jetty at the front of the crosswing, along with a panel of late 17th-century pargetting above it. The left return wall of the cottage displays 19th-century pargetting in a chevron design. Both ground floor hearths in the main house have been rebuilt in the 20th century, with the crosswing hearth featuring a brick depressed arch. The interior shows exposed studding, a chamfered axial beam in the main range, and a floor in the crosswing that has been significantly altered.
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