22-26, LOWER HOLT STREET

22-26, LOWER HOLT STREET

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Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1123195
Date first listed:
21-Jun-1962
List Entry Name:
22-26, LOWER HOLT STREET
Statutory Address:
22-26, LOWER HOLT STREET

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Date:
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Official list entry

Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1123195
Date first listed:
21-Jun-1962
Date of most recent amendment:
10-Apr-1987
List Entry Name:
22-26, LOWER HOLT STREET
Statutory Address 1:
22-26, LOWER HOLT STREET

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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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Corrections and minor amendments

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.

Understanding list entries

Corrections and minor amendments

Location

Statutory Address:
22-26, LOWER HOLT STREET

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

County:
Essex
District:
Braintree (District Authority)
Parish:
Earls Colne
National Grid Reference:
TL 86552 28784

Details

TL 8628-8728 EARLS COLNE LOWER HOLT STREET (south side)

9/103 Nos. 22-26 (evens) 21.6.62 (formerly listed as Nos. 1, 2, and 3, Tudor Cottage)

GV II

House, now divided into-3 cottages. C15, extended in C18. Timber framed, plastered, roofed with handmade red plain tiles. The main range facing NW is divided into no. 24, at the right end, with an axial stack, and no. 26, at the left end, with an end stack. A C17 extension behind no. 24 is now no. 22. One storey with attics. 3 C20 leaded casements and 4 more in gabled dormers. 2 C20 doors (no. 24 with flanking lights) both with flat canopies on brackets. In no. 24 the end of a floor beam projects through the front wall and is tusk-tenoned; it projects at the rear also, but the tenon is missing. The left bay of no. 24 has this beam and a connecting axial beam, both chamfered with step stops, and chamfered joists of horizontal section with step stops supported on pegged clamps, comprising a floor inserted.c.1560. Large wood-burning hearth facing to left, late C16, with re-used moulded and carved mantel beam, early C16. The right bay has a C17 inserted floor, with runout stops on the beams and plain joists of vertical section, and heavily smoke-blackened rafters. Interior of no. 26 not examined. No. 22 has an end stack, probably external originally but later enclosed, and plain joists of vertical section. (Wherein I Dwell, Earls Colne WEA, 1983, 66-7).

Listing NGR: TL8655228784

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The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.

Legacy System number:
115951
Legacy System:
LBS

Sources

Books and journals
Wherein I Dwell, (1983), 66-7

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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