Red Tile Cottages
RED TILE COTTAGES
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1111379
- Date first listed:
- 05-Jun-1978
- List Entry Name:
- Red Tile Cottages
- Statutory Address:
- RED TILE COTTAGES
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1111379
- Date first listed:
- 05-Jun-1978
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 26-Apr-1984
- List Entry Name:
- Red Tile Cottages
- Statutory Address 1:
- RED TILE COTTAGES
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:
- RED TILE COTTAGES
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Essex
- District:
- Epping Forest (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Matching
- National Grid Reference:
- TL 51606 12515
Details
TL 51 SW MATCHING NEWMAN'S END Red Tile Cottages 3/31 (formerly listed as Nos 1 to 4 5.6.78 (Consec) (Red Tile Cottages)) II
Lobby-entrance house,c.1600, extended in C17 and C19. Timber-framed, plastered, roofed with machine-made red clay tiles. Originally of 3 bays aligned approx. N-S with axial chimney stack in middle bay, forming a lobby entrance. Axial chimney stack at S end, C19. One-bay extension to S, C17, with axial chimney stack at S end, C19. Extensions to N, S and W, forming a block of cottages, C19. 2 storeys. E elevation, 4 plain boarded doors, 12 C20 metal casement windows on ground floor, 5 more on first floor. Some framing exposed internally. In original building, axial and transverse beams plain chamfered with step stops, joists of deep section unchamfered. In C17 S extension, axial beam with lamb's tongue stops, thinner joists of vertical section unchamfered. Jowled posts, with arched braces to tiebeams. Tiebeam between N and middle bay of original building removed, replaced by iron tie rod. Arched braces from posts to wallplates inside studs, apparently not trenched. Clasped purlin roof, curved wind bracing. Some original hardwood floorboards, rebated, covered by softwood boards. This building is depicted in elevation in the Walker map of 1609 (Essex Record Office D/DU 25), with a double chimney stack immediately S of centre, and 4 windows at each floor. It then formed part of the manor of Housham Hall (to which it continued to belong until c.1975) and was held by Edward Gemminges with 72 acres, called Newlandes alias Newmans. The other farm buildings depicted - 2 barns, a carthouse and a stable - have gone. RCHM 17.
Listing NGR: TL5160612515
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 118191
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
An Inventory of Essex Central and South West, (1921)
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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