Walnut Cottage
WALNUT COTTAGE, 4, SHEERING LOWER ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1111362
- Date first listed:
- 26-Apr-1984
- List Entry Name:
- Walnut Cottage
- Statutory Address:
- WALNUT COTTAGE, 4, SHEERING LOWER ROAD
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- Reference:
- IOE01/14979/02
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1111362
- Date first listed:
- 26-Apr-1984
- List Entry Name:
- Walnut Cottage
- Statutory Address 1:
- WALNUT COTTAGE, 4, SHEERING LOWER 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:
- WALNUT COTTAGE, 4, SHEERING LOWER 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 49157 14145
Details
TL 41 SE SHEERING SHEERING LOWER ROAD 2/8 No 4 (Walnut Cottage)
II
Cottage, late C17, extended in C20. Timber-framed, plastered, roofed with handmade red clay tiles. 3 bays aligned E-W, with external chimney on W gable, and internal chimney in E bay to N of ridge. C20 extensions to N and NE. Single storey with attics. S elevation (facing Back Lane), 2 C20 casement windows and glazed side door, 3 gabled dormers with C20 casement windows. Pargetted with zig-zag lines and concentric circles arranged in panels. Original floors in W and middle bays, axial beams chamfered, common joists unchamfered with lamb's tongue stops in W bay only. Framing exposed internally in upper W and middle rooms. Posts without jowls but with well-cut lap-dovetail tying joints. Primary straight bracing. Tiebeam between middle and E bay intact. Tiebeam between middle and W bay severed for an inserted doorway, but strongly framed round door. Chisel-cut date 1711 on lintel, probably represents the date of insertion of this doorway.
Listing NGR: TL4915714145
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 118257
- 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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