The Reading and Coffee Rooms
THE READING AND COFFEE ROOMS, THE STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1122920
- Date first listed:
- 15-Oct-1984
- List Entry Name:
- The Reading and Coffee Rooms
- Statutory Address:
- THE READING AND COFFEE ROOMS, THE STREET
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1122920
- Date first listed:
- 15-Oct-1984
- List Entry Name:
- The Reading and Coffee Rooms
- Statutory Address 1:
- THE READING AND COFFEE ROOMS, THE 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:
- THE READING AND COFFEE ROOMS, THE STREET
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Essex
- District:
- Braintree (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Gosfield
- National Grid Reference:
- TL 78298 29638
Details
TL 72 NE GOSFIELD THE STREET (EAST SIDE) 7/195 The Reading and Coffee Rooms
GV II
Reading and coffee room still used as a Village Hall. Circa 1850-1860 for Samuel Courtauld. Red brick with gault and black brick dressings. Bargeboards, plaster and batten decoration to porch and crosswing gables. Red plain and ornate tiles with red and black ridge tiles and fleur-de-lis tiles over. Left range of one storey with forward gabled porch to right. Two storey right crosswing. 2:1 window range of 3 light casements, those to left with transoms, black and gault segmental pointed arches. Brick rusticated quoins. Rails and muntins to nailed porch door with ornate iron hinges. Stone plaque above door reads "So that you may live". Another stone plaque over ground floor right window reads "Reading and Coffee Room". C20 matching brick single storey entrance porch to left with 6 panel double doors. This building is situated in the village centre and forms part of the complex built for Samuel Courtauld q.v. 7/191. Included for social historical interest.
Listing NGR: TL7829829638
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 114721
- 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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