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Garretts

A Grade II* Listed Building in Shalford, Essex

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Coordinates

Latitude: 51.9172 / 51°55'1"N

Longitude: 0.4962 / 0°29'46"E

OS Eastings: 571770

OS Northings: 227240

OS Grid: TL717272

Mapcode National: GBR PH8.L9S

Mapcode Global: VHJJ9.K25M

Plus Code: 9F32WF8W+VF

Entry Name: Garretts

Listing Date: 21 December 1967

Grade: II*

Source: Historic England

Source ID: 1147765

English Heritage Legacy ID: 115578

ID on this website: 101147765

Location: Jasper's Green, Braintree, Essex, CM7

County: Essex

District: Braintree

Civil Parish: Shalford

Traditional County: Essex

Lieutenancy Area (Ceremonial County): Essex

Church of England Parish: Shalford St Andrew

Church of England Diocese: Chelmsford

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Description


TL 72 NW SHALFORD GARRETTS LANE

3/59 Garretts

21.12.67

- II*

House. C.1600, restored in C20. Timber framed, plastered, roofed with handmade
red clay tiles. 4 bays facing SW, with axial stack in second bay from left end,
forming a lobby-entrance. C20 single-storey extensions at left end and to rear
of left end. 2 storeys and attics. 3-window range of C18 3-light casements
(some introduced or reproduction). C20 plain boarded door in C20 gabled porch.
4 octagonal shafts with moulded bases, rebuilt at top. The interior has jowled
posts, exposed studding with straight braces trenched to the inside, chamfered
axial beams with lamb's tongue stops, plain joists of horizontal section. On
ground floor, 2 large wood-burning hearths, the mantel beams chamfered with
lamb's tongue stops. On first floor, 2 original hearths with depressed arches
of plastered brick, one chamfered, the other moulded. Original framed stair to
rear of stack, with splat balusters at attic level. This house contains an
exceptional range of interior doors of various types, some original, others
introduced but correct for period, with original door furniture. All the
windows are accurately restored, in some cases with genuine windows of the
correct period introduced from elsewhere. Butt-purlin roof with straight
wind-braces. RCHM 24.


Listing NGR: TL7177027240

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