BRAMLEY COTTAGE TOUCHWOOD

BRAMLEY COTTAGE, NORTH END

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1123024
Date first listed:: 29-Aug-1984
List Entry Name:: BRAMLEY COTTAGE TOUCHWOOD
Statutory Address:: BRAMLEY COTTAGE, NORTH END

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Date:: 2002-04-20
Reference:: IOE01/06844/06
Rights:: © Mr Frank Swift. Source: Historic England Archive

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1123024
Date first listed:: 29-Aug-1984
List Entry Name:: BRAMLEY COTTAGE TOUCHWOOD
Statutory Address 1:: BRAMLEY COTTAGE, NORTH END
Statutory Address 2:: TOUCHWOOD, NORTH END

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.

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This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

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.

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Location

Statutory Address:: BRAMLEY COTTAGE, NORTH END
Statutory Address:: TOUCHWOOD, NORTH END

The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.

County:: Essex
District:: Braintree (District Authority)
Parish:: Little Yeldham
National Grid Reference:: TL 78717 39020

Details

TL 73 NE LITTLE YELDHAM NORTH END, North Side 4/21 Bramley Cottage and Touchwood GV II

House, C15, extended in C19, now 2 cottages. Timber framed, plastered, roofed with interlocking concrete tiles. 2-bay hall aligned E-W, aspect S, with integral storeyed parlour/solar bay at W end, and C19 extension at E end. Axial chimney stack, late C16, in E bay of hall, and external chimney stacks at W and E ends. Single-storey lean-to extension at E end. The property division between Bramley Cottage and Touchwood is through the axial stack, with one hearth in each cottage, most of the C15 hall house being included in Bramley Cottage, and the frame extending approx. 2 metres into Touchwood. Single storey with attics. 2 C20 half-glazed doors, 5 C20 casement windows, 4 more in gabled dormers. The interior of Bramley Cottage has jowled posts, heavy studding, exposed wattle on the W side of the hall/parlour partition, lodged plain joists of horizontal section over the parlour, and a late C16 inserted floor in the hall, with chamfered axial beam and plain joists of horizontal section supported on pegged clamps. The roof timbers are heavily sooted. A ceiling obstructs access to the roof, but it appears to be of crownpost construction. Some rebuilding at sides of main hearth. In Touchwood the main hearth is C17 with lamb's tongue stops on the mantel beam. One large jowled post is exposed, another boxed in.

Listing NGR: TL7871739020

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Legacy System number:: 114469
Legacy System:: LBS

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This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.