The Thatched Cottage
- Date:
- 17 Feb 2003
- Location:
- The Thatched Cottage, Saffron Walden, Uttlesford, Essex, CB10 1XB
- Reference:
- IOE01/07628/21
- Type:
- Photograph (Digital)
This information is taken from the statutory List as it was in 2001 and may not be up to date.
SAFFRON WALDEN
TL54SE LITTLE WALDEN 669-1/6/377 The Thatched Cottage 14/04/82
II
House. c1700, with C19 and C20 additions. Timber-framed and plastered, brick, thatched and pantiled roofs. Plan L shaped. One and a half storeys. Front E elevation: 4 window range with projecting gabled porch, thatch over whole, C19 bead moulded boarded door, fixed `Gothick' lancet light in porch sides. Windows, 3 sliding sashes, 4x4 panes, one C20 casement similar. 2 dormer `eyebrow' windows with early C20 2-light casements. Stack contemporary with house. To N, single storey pantiled range, C19, extended in C20, with one C19 sliding sash 4x3 and one C20 segment headed casement window. S end elevation: house with rear early C19 lean-to, continuous thatch. Ground floor, C20 2-light casement window and rear simple casement. Attic floor, C20 sliding sash window 4x3 panes. N end elevation: original rear house roof rafter and wall plate exposed with C19 lean-to roof over. Attic floor, C20 3-light casement window, fixed `Gothick' lancet light, each side. To rear (lean-to) C20 top-hung casement window. C19 and C20 extension partly obscures ground floor. N end, C20 French window with side lights. Rear W elevation: obscured by large C20 addition. INTERIOR: not inspected but primary braced studding evident and central stack has 2 back-to-back timber lintelled fireplaces.
Listing NGR: TL5539242020
This is part of the Series: IOE01/1583 IOE Records taken by Tony Phillips; within the Collection: IOE01 Images Of England
© Dr Tony Phillips. Source: Historic England Archive
This photograph was taken for the Images of England project
Photographer: Phillips, Tony
Rights Holder: Phillips, Tony
Brick, Pantile, Plaster, Thatch, Timber, Stuart Timber Framed House, Georgian Monument (By Form), Timber Framed Building, House, Domestic, Dwelling
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