Hill Cottages Primrose Cottage
HILL COTTAGES, 1 AND 2, HIGH STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1105649
- Date first listed:
- 16-Oct-1981
- List Entry Name:
- Hill Cottages Primrose Cottage
- Statutory Address:
- HILL COTTAGES, 1 AND 2, HIGH STREET
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- Reference:
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1105649
- Date first listed:
- 16-Oct-1981
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 17-May-1985
- List Entry Name:
- Hill Cottages Primrose Cottage
- Statutory Address 1:
- HILL COTTAGES, 1 AND 2, HIGH STREET
- Statutory Address 2:
- PRIMROSE COTTAGE, HIGH STREET
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:
- HILL COTTAGES, 1 AND 2, HIGH STREET
- Statutory Address:
- PRIMROSE COTTAGE, HIGH STREET
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Essex
- District:
- Braintree (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Great Bardfield
- National Grid Reference:
- TL 67462 30418
Details
TL 6730 GREAT BARDFIELD HIGH STREET (south-east side)
8/186 Primrose Cottage, and Nos. 1 and 2 Hill 16.10.81 Cottages (formerly listed as Hill House Cottage and Cottages rear of Hill Side Cottage under GV II Dunmow Road)
House, and range of cottages to rear. C18, altered in C20. Rendered brick, roofed with handmade red clay tiles. Primrose Cottage (formerly Hill House Cottage), is of rectangular plan facing NW, with an internal stack at the left end and an external stack at the right end. 2 storeys. 2-window range of late C19 sashes of 8 lights. Late C19 door with gabled canopy on pierced brackets. Nos. 1 and 2, Hill House Cottages comprise a line of 5 cottages to the rear, nor combined, with entrance elevation to SW, and 2 axial stacks. 2 storeys. The more conspicuous NE elevation, facing Town Hall Square, has 4 horizontally sliding sashes of 8 lights and one C20 casement on the ground floor, and on the first floor 2 similar sashes and 2 C20 casements. Originally they were of one storey with attics, raised to 2 storeys in early C19.
Listing NGR: TL6746230418
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 115325
- 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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