Eveleigh Cottage Eveleigh House
EVELEIGH COTTAGE, CHURCH HILL
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1110881
- Date first listed:
- 05-Aug-1982
- List Entry Name:
- Eveleigh Cottage Eveleigh House
- Statutory Address:
- EVELEIGH COTTAGE, CHURCH HILL
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1110881
- Date first listed:
- 05-Aug-1982
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 30-May-1986
- List Entry Name:
- Eveleigh Cottage Eveleigh House
- Statutory Address 1:
- EVELEIGH COTTAGE, CHURCH HILL
- Statutory Address 2:
- EVELEIGH HOUSE, CHURCH HILL
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:
- EVELEIGH COTTAGE, CHURCH HILL
- Statutory Address:
- EVELEIGH HOUSE, CHURCH HILL
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Essex
- District:
- Maldon (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Purleigh
- National Grid Reference:
- TL 84176 02077
Details
PURLEIGH CHURCH HILL TL 80 SW (north side) 1/86 Eveleigh Cottage and 5.8.82 Eveleigh House, formerly listed as Eveleigh Cottage and Eveleigh Room GV II Schoolmaster's house and attached elementary school, now 2 dwellings. Early C19, extended in late C19 and C20. Mainly of red brick in Flemish bond, upper storey of house timber framed and weatherboarded, house roofed with handmade red clay tiles, school roofed with slate. House of rectangular plan facing S, with 2 rear stacks. Early C19 schoolroom extending to rear left, with one external stack at rear. Late C19 schoolroom in front of it, forming a school of 2 parallel ranges. C20 lean-to extension to rear of house, forming a catslide with it. Small C20 flat-roofed extension to right of house. House of 2 storeys, school of one storey. The house has a 2-window range of original sashes of 16 lights with crown glass, the lower windows in segmental arches. Central 6-panel door, the top 2 panels glazed, in semi-circular arch. Roof hipped. The school (now Eveleigh House) has a front elevation in Gothic Revival style, with a 4-light sash window with chamfered brick mullions and jambs. Plain boarded door with plain overlight in a recessed porch, the front archway having chamfered jambs and 2-centred arch of alternate blocks of red and blue bricks. Band of blue bricks, continuing round left return of late C19 schoolroom. 5 crosses of blue bricks below front window. In the left return is a sash window of 3 lights with chamfered mullions, jambs and 2-centred heads, and 4 crosses of blue bricks below it. The rear stack was truncated below eaves level, and a bell-turret mentioned in the Order of 5.8.82, was missing, at the time of survey, July 1985.
Listing NGR: TL8417602077
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 117414
- 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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