Abbey Mill House
ABBEY MILL HOUSE, ABBEY LANE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1123193
- Date first listed:
- 31-Oct-1966
- List Entry Name:
- Abbey Mill House
- Statutory Address:
- ABBEY MILL HOUSE, ABBEY LANE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1123193
- Date first listed:
- 31-Oct-1966
- List Entry Name:
- Abbey Mill House
- Statutory Address 1:
- ABBEY MILL HOUSE, ABBEY LANE
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:
- ABBEY MILL HOUSE, ABBEY LANE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Essex
- District:
- Braintree (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Coggeshall
- National Grid Reference:
- TL 85527 22155
Details
TL 8422-8522 COGGESHALL ABBEY LANE (south side)
9/17 Abbey Mill House 31.10.66
GV II
House. C15, extended in C18 and early C19. Timber framed, plastered and weatherboarded, roofed with handmade red plain tiles, and early C19 entrance range of painted brick in Flemish bond, roofed with slate. 3 bays aligned N-S, with C16/17 stack to W. C18 extension to N with axial stack at end, and C19 single-storey lean-to extension beyond, roofed with slate. Early C19 parallel range to W, forming the entrance elevation. 2 storeys. 4-window range of early C19 sashes of 12 lights with flat arches of gauged brick, and crown glass. Off- centre early C19 6-panel door, the bottom panels flush, with flat jambs and paterae, and semi-elliptical arch with fanlight and radial tracery; C20 semi- circular porch on stanchions. Plain band at first-floor level. Hipped roof of shallow pitch with long overhanging eaves. The left end of the rear range, projecting beyond the entrance range, is weatherboarded, with on the first floor 2 C19 horizontal sashes of 12+12 lights. The rear elevation has on the ground floor 2 similar windows, but turned to form vertical sashes, one early C19 sash of 10+10 lights, and one early C19 fixed window of 12 lights; and on the first floor one early C19 horizontal sash of 12+12 lights, altered for a ventilator, and one of 8+12 lights. The right end of the rear roof is half-hipped. Chamfered binding beams on ledged posts; plain joists of horizontal section jointed to them with unrefined soffit tenons. Cambered tie beam, incomplete crownpost roof; one plain crownpost survives with a short length of collar- purlin, one severed collar, and one rafter couple. Most of the rafters in the W pitch of the roof are original. The E pitch of one bay has been raised and roofed with slate, the remainder tiled and of normal tile pitch. The roof of the N extension is of clasped purlin construction. The entrance range has an original 2-flight stair with turned newels, mahogany wreathed handrail and stick balusters.
Listing NGR: TL8552722155
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 116048
- 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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