Rose Cottage
ROSE COTTAGE, STAPLEFORD ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1111160
- Date first listed:
- 29-May-1984
- List Entry Name:
- Rose Cottage
- Statutory Address:
- ROSE COTTAGE, STAPLEFORD ROAD
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1111160
- Date first listed:
- 29-May-1984
- List Entry Name:
- Rose Cottage
- Statutory Address 1:
- ROSE COTTAGE, STAPLEFORD ROAD
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:
- ROSE COTTAGE, STAPLEFORD ROAD
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Essex
- District:
- Epping Forest (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Stapleford Abbotts
- National Grid Reference:
- TQ 50281 95363
Details
TQ 59 NW STAPLEFORD ABBOTTB STAPLEFORD ROAD 3/13 Rose Cottage II
House, late C16, altered in C18 and C20. Timber framed, plastered with some exposed framing, roofed with handmade red clay tiles. 3 bays aligned approx. E-W, comprising 2-bay open hall with storeyed parlour/solar end at E. Axial chimney stack at W end, possibky original, brickwork much renewed in C20. Chimney stack at SE comer. Lean-to extension to N of W end, forming catslide roof, C18. Single-storey extension with flat roof to N of E end, C20. Lean-to extension at E end, C20. Single-storey with attics. S elevation, all windows C20 including 2 gabled dormers. Exposed framing, mostly not original, but girt supporting joinsts of solar floor is present, raised approx. 25cm above its original position. Framing partly exposed internally. Heavy studding in partition between hall and parlour, original doorway at S end blocked, another made at N end. Axial beam over parlour, plain-chamfered with step stops. Inserted floor in hall, with axial beam of softwood plain-chamfered with die- away stops, joists plastered to soffits, C18. Jowled posts, straight braces inside studs, not trenched. Edge-halved and bridled scarf in N wallplate. N wall has been raised approx. 1 metre above original wallplate, probably when N lean-to extension was constructed, producing a roof with shallower pitch in N slope than in S.
Listing NGR: TQ5028195363
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 118697
- 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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