Writtle Bowling Club Boundary Walls
WRITTLE BOWLING CLUB BOUNDARY WALLS, ROMANS PLACE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1072609
- Date first listed:
- 15-Sept-1997
- List Entry Name:
- Writtle Bowling Club Boundary Walls
- Statutory Address:
- WRITTLE BOWLING CLUB BOUNDARY WALLS, ROMANS PLACE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1072609
- Date first listed:
- 15-Sept-1997
- List Entry Name:
- Writtle Bowling Club Boundary Walls
- Statutory Address 1:
- WRITTLE BOWLING CLUB BOUNDARY WALLS, ROMANS PLACE
The scope of legal protection for listed buildings
This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.
Unless the List entry states otherwise, it includes both the structure itself and any object or structure fixed to it (whether inside or outside) as well as any object or structure within the curtilage of the building.
For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.
The scope of legal protection for listed buildings
This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.
Unless the List entry states otherwise, it includes both the structure itself and any object or structure fixed to it (whether inside or outside) as well as any object or structure within the curtilage of the building.
For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.
Location
- Statutory Address:
- WRITTLE BOWLING CLUB BOUNDARY WALLS, ROMANS PLACE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Essex
- District:
- Chelmsford (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Writtle
- National Grid Reference:
- TL 67847 06155
Details
TL6706 WRITTLE ROMANS PLACE
926/27/10009 Writtle Bowling Club
boundary walls
GV II
Walled garden. Dated 1656 on a brick at the corner of Roman's Place and the Churchyard but part could be C16, altered in C18 and C19. Red brick wall, mainly in random bond but with some English bond to the lower parts and Flemish bond to the upper parts, forming a square about 50 yards long on each side. North side to Roman's Place is approx. 3m high with dogtooth cornice, 9 brick buttresses and opening with concrete lintel and wooden door. The 5 bays nearest the Churchyard are of C16-C17 brickwork and the rest late C18 in Flemish bond. The west side to the Churchyard is of 3m sloping down to approx 1.8m with a coping of large tiles. The east side to Lodge Road is of 1.8m-3m with ramped top partially restored in C20 and 10 brick buttresses. The lower courses appear C16, the upper late C18 and are part English and part Flemish bond. The south side is approx 1.8m-2.4m high of C17 and C18 brickwork with plain coping. This was formerly a walled garden to the Vicarage. Two Roman urns were discovered on this site in 1840.
Listing NGR: TL6784706155
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 468842
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Legal
This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.
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