Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1122636
- Date first listed:
- 17-Oct-1983
- List Entry Name:
- Perses
- Statutory Address:
- PERSES
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1122636
- Date first listed:
- 17-Oct-1983
- List Entry Name:
- Perses
- Statutory Address 1:
- PERSES
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:
- PERSES
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Essex
- District:
- Uttlesford (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Great Canfield
- National Grid Reference:
- TL 56566 19309
Details
TL 51 NE GREAT CANFIELD
2/6 PERSES
II
Cottage, late C16, extended and altered in C17 and C20. Timber framed, plastered, roof thatched, Originally comprised 2 bays only, storeyed in S bay, open to the roof in N bay, with original brick chimney stack at N end, late C16. Floor inserted in open bay, dormer inserted in W pitch of roof, early C17. Extended to N by one bay, C17. External chimney stack at S end, C19/20. Extension to E of N bay, forming an L plan, C20. Single storey with attics. In S gable end, one french window with 2 casement windows above, all C20. In E extension, door with large fixed lights each side under shallow porch, 3-light casement window, 2 gabled dormers with casements. Some framing exposed internally. In original cottage, jowled storey posts, curved tension bracing trenched inside studs. Inserted axial beam is stop-chamfered. Original floor boards in N bay. The occupation of this site is fully recorded from 1504 to 1823 (Eland, p. 122). Until 1595 it was a holding of 4 acres; from then it became a holding of only 1½ acres burdened with reaping service. This change of status appears to correlate with the building of the 2-bay cottage which forms the earliest part of the present structure. There is a very similar building at The Cottage, Stane Street, Little Canfield, described as recently built in a survey of 1590 (Essex Record office D/DHt M20), and other similar buildings without documentation are known. This transitional type of cottage, with one bay open to the roof but with an original end chimney stack, is of particular interest historically, and seems to occur earlier in Essex than is recognised elsewhere. -
Listing NGR: TL5656619309
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 352699
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Other
Eland,
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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