Newman's End

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Newman's End
Essex
Village pump at Newman's End near Sheering - geograph.org.uk - 813384.jpg
Cast iron pump, Newman's End
Location
Grid reference: TL516124
Location: 51°47’26"N, 0°11’51"E
Data
Postcode: CM17
Dialling code: 01279
Local Government
Council: Epping Forest
Parliamentary
constituency:
Brentwood and Ongar

Newman's End is a hamlet near Matching in western Essex and sharing its civil parish. The hamlet, at the north of the parish, is less than a mile north-west of Matching village and the parish church, St Mary's, and a mile south-east of the village of Sheering.

The M11 motorway is a mile to the west, beyond which sits Harlow.

History

At the then Smallway's Farm in the mid-1700s was a malt house, by at latest 1843 using grain from a field to the west of the farm. Parsonage Farm, still existing at the centre of the hamlet, of 63 acres in 1745 and 56 acres in 1843, was glebe land in the advowson of the trustees of Felsted School, until, in 1876, the rectory was bought by Henry Selwin-Ibbetson, 1st Baron Rookwood of Down Hall in the then Hatfield Broad Oak, now Hatfield Heath parish.[1] At the northeast of Parsonage Farm are the remains of a possible mediæval moat, now a scheduled monument.[2]

There are four Grade II listed structures at Newman's End:

  • 'Parsonage Farmhouse', a four bay timber framed and plastered two storey house, with pargetting details, dating to the 17th century;[3]
  • 'Parsonage Farm barn', a timber framed weatherboarded barn dating to the 17th century;[4]
  • 'Red Tile Cottages', a timber framed, tiled roofed cottage dating to the 16th century, and in 1609 part of Housham Hall manor;[5]
  • 'Pump on the Green', late 19th-century cast iron water pump[6]

See also

Outside links

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References

  1. "Matching": A History of the County of Essex - Volume 8 : {{{2}}} (Victoria County History)
  2. National Monuments Record: No. 373305 – Possible moat
  3. National Heritage List 1337197Parsonage Farmhouse: Farmhouse Newman's End
  4. National Heritage List 1111380: Barn east of Parsonage Farm
  5. National Heritage List 1111379: Red Tile Cottages
  6. National Heritage List 1308894: Pump on Green