Highgates Cottages
HIGHGATES COTTAGES, 1, 2 AND 3, CHURCH ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1122936
- Date first listed:
- 07-Aug-1952
- List Entry Name:
- Highgates Cottages
- Statutory Address:
- HIGHGATES COTTAGES, 1, 2 AND 3, CHURCH ROAD
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1122936
- Date first listed:
- 07-Aug-1952
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 15-Oct-1984
- List Entry Name:
- Highgates Cottages
- Statutory Address 1:
- HIGHGATES COTTAGES, 1, 2 AND 3, CHURCH ROAD
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:
- HIGHGATES COTTAGES, 1, 2 AND 3, CHURCH ROAD
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 78104 29538
Details
TL 72 NE GOSFIELD CHURCH ROAD 7/155 Nos. 1,2 & 3 (Highgates Cottages.) (Formerly listed 7 8 52 as Highgates)
GV II*
House, now three dwellings. Early C15 or earlier with later additions and alterations. Timber framed and plastered. Red plain tiled roofs. Three red brick chimney stacks. Of complex plan. Hall house with jettied gabled crosswings to right and left. Left crosswing outshot to left and with ground floor bay below jetty. There is a forward gable to right of hall with a leaded three light transomed window. The right crosswing with red tiled lean-to porch. Crosswings of two storeys. Hall one storey and attics. To far right is a forward two storey gabled crosswing with jetty to left return. Various gabled wings to rear. 1:1:1:1 window range of various C17, C18 and C19 casements, some leaded. Some mullions remain, one with original shutters. Curved jetty brackets. Pentice board to left crosswing gable. Three vertically boarded doors, those to centre and right with lights. Interior features include original brick fireplaces with mantel beams over, that to first floor right with a cambered mantel beam. Part of the arches of screens passage doors visible. Sooted, cross quadrate crownpost roof to Hall. Reputed to have been used as a nunnery of the Order of the Poor Clares following their persecution and flight during the French Revolution. RCHM 5.
Listing NGR: TL7810429538
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 114667
- 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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