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Games Farmhouse (EHER 38123)

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Summary

Mid 16th century framed farmhouse with post medieval farmstead. Building recording undertaken on an outbuilding on the site, Two Sticks Barn, dated the barn to the mid eighteenth century designed primarily as a threshing barn.

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Location

Grid reference TL 6125 1286 (point)
Civil Parish HIGH EASTER, UTTLESFORD, ESSEX

Type and Period

Description

Mid 16th century timber framed farmhouse with post medieval farmstead. <1> Building recording undertaken on an outbuilding on the site, Two Sticks Barn, dated the barn to the mid eighteenth century designed primarily as a threshing barn. <2> Information from NHRE Games Farm [NAT] <3> Games Farmhouse. Farmhouse. Mid 16th century, around 1600 and possibly earlier. RCHM 19. Grade II. <4> Games, house, about 1 1/4 m SSW of the church, was built late in the 16th century on a half H-shaped plan with the wings extending towards the NE. At the NW end of the SW front the upper storey projects. <5>

Sources

  • <1> Photograph: Essex County Council. 1970-1993. ECC Historic Buildings Photo Print Archive. 1 frame, 1/1996.
  • <2> Building Recording Report: Hillman-Crouch, B.. 2021. Games Farm, High Easter Road, High Easter: Historic building recording of the Two Sticks Barn..
  • <3> Map: Ordnance Survey. unknown. Ordnance Survey 1:10000 Post War National Grid. OS 1:10000 1978.
  • <4> DESC TEXT: Department of the Environment. 1985. List of Buildings of Special Architectural or Historic Interest: Uttlesford. p. 3.
  • <5> Monograph: RCHME. 1921. An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in Essex, Volume II, Central and South-West. p. 129.

Other References

  • NRHE identifier: 762190
  • National Monuments Record: TL 61 SW 41

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