Springmede Finchingfield, England

Listed Building Data

Springmede has been designated a Grade II* listed building in England with the following information, which has been imported from the National Heritage List for England. Please note that not all available data may be shown here, minor errors and/or formatting may have occurred during transcription, and some information may have become outdated since listing.

List Entry ID
1122724
Listing Type
listed building
Grade
II*
Date Listed
21 December 1967
Name
SPRINGMEDE
Location
SPRINGMEDE, THE CAUSEWAY
Parish
Finchingfield
District
Braintree
County
Essex
Grid Reference
TL 68476 32874
Easting
568476.0000
Northing
232874.0000

Listed Building Description

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TL 6832 FINCHINGFIELD THE CAUSEWAY (east side)

7/9 Springmede ( formerly 21.12.67 listed as Springmead)

GV II*

Rouse . Early C17. Timber framed, plastered, roofed with handmade red clay tiles. 3 bays facing E, with central stack forming a lobby-entrance, and original rear wing at right side. 2 storeys and attics. Ground floor, 5 C20 casements. First floor, 3 C20 casements, and 2 more in feature gables. C17 moulded door, re-sited originally an internal door. Grouped diagonal shafts, rebuilt. 3 pairs of original bargeboards, carved with a guilloche design on left feature gable and right return gable, carved with a design of continuously linked circles and rectangles on right feature gable. The left ground floor room has chamfered axial and transverse beams with lamb' tongue and notch stops, plain joists of vertical section (originally plastered to the soffits) and an elaborately moulded jowl with serrated lower edge. The right ground floor room has lamb's tongue and bar stops on the transverse beam, lamb's tongue and notch stops on the axial beam, plastered joists, and lamb's tongue stops on the mantel beam. The rear wing has plain joists of horizontal section. The left first floor room has blocked frieze windows, jowls of ogee profile, a brick hearth with depressed arch and recessed spandrels, formerly plastered, and above it a band of painted plaster, black overlapping circles filled with red on a white ground. The right first floor room has a similar hearth but still plastered, the space above filled with original plasterwork consisting of repeats of 3 moulds, respectively of an urn design, a vine design and a strapwork design. Both first floor rooms have straight bracing trenched inside the studding. On the stair to the attic there is an original window with one ovolo mullion. There are a number of original and early doors with door furniture. The rear wing has a clasped purlin roof. This house retains an exceptional number of original external and internal decorative features. The combination of various chamfer stops and joist sections is of exceptional historical interest, illustrating the transition of floor designs of the first 20 years of the C17. RCHM 25.

Listing NGR: TL6847632874