Bures Antiques
BURES ANTIQUES, 1, BRIDGE STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1122880
- Date first listed:
- 12-Nov-1984
- List Entry Name:
- Bures Antiques
- Statutory Address:
- BURES ANTIQUES, 1, BRIDGE STREET
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- Date:
- 2001-06-26
- Reference:
- IOE01/04719/32
- Rights:
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1122880
- Date first listed:
- 12-Nov-1984
- List Entry Name:
- Bures Antiques
- Statutory Address 1:
- BURES ANTIQUES, 1, BRIDGE 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:
- BURES ANTIQUES, 1, BRIDGE STREET
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Essex
- District:
- Braintree (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Bures Hamlet
- National Grid Reference:
- TL 90514 34030
Details
BURES HAMLET BRIDGE STREET TL 9034 (north side) 5/29 No. 1 (Bures Antiques) GV II House, now a shop. Late C15. Timber framed, plaster and painted brick, roofed with red clay tiles. L-plan, consisting of 4 bays facing S, and left wing of 3 bays extending to rear, with one axial chimney stack and one at rear end. Single-storey flat-roofed extension beyond, C20. 2 storeys. Twin shop windows with C19 door, 2 early C19 sashes of 12 lights. First floor, one splayed oriel with sashes of 2-4-2 lights, late C19, and 3 early C19 sashes of 12 lights. The interior has an underbuilt jetty on both street elevations with dragon beam between. All beams of the front range are moulded (one boxed in) all joists of horizontal section chamfered with step stops, jointed with unrefined soffit tenons. In the rear wing the beams are chamfered with step stops; most of the joists are plain. The rear end bay has a lodged floor of plain joists of horizontal section arranged longitudinally. All posts have jowls and are chamfered with step stops. On the first floor some close studding is exposed internally. One section has a C16 framed ceiling with unusual roll-mouldings on the beam. Roof destroyed by fire. This building was on an important corner site in the C15, the road to the left leading up the SW side of the River Stour to Lamarsh and beyond, interrupted by Secretaries Farm before 1777 (Chapman and Andre map).
Listing NGR: TL9051434030
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 114818
- 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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