Cowicks
COWICKS, SAWBRIDGEWORTH ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1111361
- Date first listed:
- 20-Feb-1967
- List Entry Name:
- Cowicks
- Statutory Address:
- COWICKS, SAWBRIDGEWORTH ROAD
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- Reference:
- IOE01/15710/15
- Rights:
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1111361
- Date first listed:
- 20-Feb-1967
- List Entry Name:
- Cowicks
- Statutory Address 1:
- COWICKS, SAWBRIDGEWORTH 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:
- COWICKS, SAWBRIDGEWORTH ROAD
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Essex
- District:
- Epping Forest (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Sheering
- National Grid Reference:
- TL 50088 15113
Details
TL 51 NW SHEERING SAWBRIDGEWORTH ROAD
1/1 Cowicks 20.2.67 GV II
Lobby entrance house, C17, extended in C19 and C20. Timber-framed, plastered, roofed with handmade red clay tiles. 4 bays aligned approx. N-S, aspect E, with axial chimney stack in second bay from N, forming a lobby-entrance, now blocked. Extension to S with entrance hall at the junction and external chimney stack at S gable, mid C19. 2 storey flat-roofed extension to W of this with chimney stack at NW corner, C20. Conservatory to W of this, C20. Long service range aligned approx. E-W at N end of house, forming an L plan, of yellow brickwork, Flemish bond, with vertical bands of red bricks, roofed with handmade red clay tiles. At the W end of this, square malting, plastered yellow brickwork with pyramidal slate roof and louvre. House 2 storeys. Service wing, single storey with attics. E elevation, ground floor, 4 panel-door with glass in upper panels in tiled gabled porch, C19, 2 mid C19 double-hung sash windows of 4 lights, one C18 casement window of 6 lights with wrought iron casement, C20 leading. First floor, 3 mid C19 double-hung sash windows of 4 lights. Axial chimney stack has grouped diagonal shafts. Chamfered beams with lamb's tongue stops. Mid C19 staircase. Queen strut roof, clasped purlins incorporating some smoke-blackened rafters from a medieval house, with minor C19/20 alterations. RCHM 11. The will of Robert Duke, 1669 refers to 'my new dwelling house called Cowicks in Sheering' (Essex Record Office, D/AMW 7/88).
Listing NGR: TL5008815113
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 118253
- 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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