College House
COLLEGE HOUSE, 117, HIGH STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1122503
- Date first listed:
- 29-Nov-1973
- List Entry Name:
- College House
- Statutory Address:
- COLLEGE HOUSE, 117, HIGH STREET
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- 2001-06-30
- Reference:
- IOE01/03986/22
- Rights:
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1122503
- Date first listed:
- 29-Nov-1973
- List Entry Name:
- College House
- Statutory Address 1:
- COLLEGE HOUSE, 117, HIGH STREET
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:
- COLLEGE HOUSE, 117, HIGH STREET
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Essex
- District:
- Braintree (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Non Civil Parish
- National Grid Reference:
- TL 75491 22898
Details
In the following item:-
HIGH STREET 1. 385 (North West Side) BRAINTREE No 117 (College House) TL 7522 1/221 II GV. 2. An early C19 brick house now faced in pebbledash. 2 storeys, 4 window range, double-hung sashes with margin glazing bars, in stucco arcitraves, with cornices. The ground storey windows have cornices on console brackets. A 6-panel door has a wood doorcase with panelled reveals, architrave, engaged columns and a cornice. The ground storey has a small C20 shop front as the north end.
Nos 101 to 107 (odd) and Nos 113 to 117 (odd) form a group.
The description should be ammended to read:- Late C16 house having earlier origins and timber framed. The front elevation dates from the Regency, and is rough cast, with a re-topped (C1700) red brick chimney stack of the mid C15.
There are sooted rafters re-used in the roof, from a pre 1450 build, part of which may remain at the ground floor level. The mid C15 chimney originally served 3 floors with 6 flues and there are a number of original fireplaces. The door is set in front of the chimney and has ½ round columns, an architrave all of softwood. A pair of Regency, small-paned margin barred sashes to L and R, and a C19 shop window to the N (R). First storey has a range of 4 Regency sashes in stucco architraves with margin glazing bars. Roof ridged, gabled and peg-tiled with eaves.
The plan is complex with 4 wings from the rear to the W, all C16, mid C17 and C19 extensions, and stairs tower surviving behind the chimney stack. The timber frame is heavy of 4 bays and has haunched-tenons and halved scarfs with faced, bridled abutments. The chimney bay was at some date raised, when strange re-framing of the storey posts and principal rafters was effected. A good C1830 stairs with mahogony rail and brecketted treads occupies the stair tower. There is an extensive early C16 brick cellar. ------------------------------------------
HIGH STREET 1. 885 (North West Side) BRAINTREE No 117 (College House) TL 7522 1/221 II GV 2. An early C19 brick house now faced in pebbledash. 2 storeys, 4 window range, double-hung sashes with margin glazing bars, in stucco architraves, with cornices. The ground storey windows have cornices on console brackets. A 6-panel door has a wood doorcase with panelled reveals, architrave, engaged columns and a cornic. The ground storey has a small C2O shop front at the north end. Roof tiled.
Nos 101 to 107 (odd) and Nos 113 to 117 (odd) form a group.
Listing NGR: TL7549122898
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 113752
- 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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