OAK COTTAGE THE NOOK

OAK COTTAGE, THE GREEN

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Overview

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II*
List Entry Number:: 1122322
Date first listed:: 21-Jun-1962
List Entry Name:: OAK COTTAGE THE NOOK
Statutory Address:: OAK COTTAGE, THE GREEN

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Date:: 2003-03-24
Reference:: IOE01/09043/18
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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II*
List Entry Number:: 1122322
Date first listed:: 21-Jun-1962
Date of most recent amendment:: 16-May-1984
List Entry Name:: OAK COTTAGE THE NOOK
Statutory Address 1:: OAK COTTAGE, THE GREEN
Statutory Address 2:: THE NOOK, THE GREEN

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.

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This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

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.

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Location

Statutory Address:: OAK COTTAGE, THE GREEN
Statutory Address:: THE NOOK, THE GREEN

The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.

County:: Essex
District:: Braintree (District Authority)
Parish:: Ridgewell
National Grid Reference:: TL 73803 40920

Details

TL 7240-7340 RIDGEWELL THE GREEN 6/22 The Nook and Oak Cottage 21/6/62 (formerly listed as part of group of three cottages)

GV II* Long-jetty house, early C16, divided into 2 cottages. Timber framed, plastered, roofed with handmade red clay tiles. 3 bays aligned NW-SE, with axial chimney stack in second bay from NW end. Aspect SW. 2 storeys. The Nook (at NW end) has exposed beams and joists below jetty, C20 door and 3 C20 casement windows on each floor, gablet roof. Oak Cottage has the jetty underbuilt, 5-panel door with top 2 panels glazed, one C20 casement window on ground floor and 2 on first floor. The Nook comprises the plainer service end, with jowled posts, close studding exposed internally, edge-halved and bridled scarf in NE wallplate, grooves for sliding shutters and mortices for diamond mullions. Faintly carved date 1602 on mantel beam of inserted chimney stack, the brickwork below it renewed. Exposed plain joists of horizontal section. The SE side only of the second transverse beam from the NW end has rich folded-leaf carving. There is an inserted ceiling above the first floor, the beam plain-chamfered with lamb's tongue stops, early C17. Oak Cottage is generally similar, except that the joists are richly moulded and the axial and transverse beams have rich folded- leaf carving and double-ogee mouldings. Clasped purlin roof with arched windbracing.

Listing NGR: TL7380740916

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Legacy System number:: 114134
Legacy System:: LBS

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This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.