2-8, BROOK STREET
2-8, BROOK STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1123238
- Date first listed:
- 10-Apr-1987
- List Entry Name:
- 2-8, BROOK STREET
- Statutory Address:
- 2-8, BROOK STREET
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- Reference:
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- Rights:
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1123238
- Date first listed:
- 10-Apr-1987
- List Entry Name:
- 2-8, BROOK STREET
- Statutory Address 1:
- 2-8, BROOK 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:
- 2-8, BROOK STREET
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Essex
- District:
- Braintree (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Colne Engaine
- National Grid Reference:
- TL 84945 30366
Details
TL 8430-8530 COLNE ENGAINE BROOK STREET (north side)
7/4 Nos 2-8 (evens)
GV II
Terrace of almshouses. C18 or earlier, altered in C19. Timber framed, clad with yellow brick in Flemish bond, ornamented with red brick, roofed with handmade red clay tiles. Single range of attached cottages facing S, with one axial stack to left of centre and one at right end. Probably 5 units originally, 2 combined to form no. 4. Rear extensions. One storey with attics. No. 2 (at the right end) has 2 C19 casements and 2 more in lean-to dormers. No. 4 has one C19 horizontal sash of 16 lights, one C19 sash of 12 lights, and one C19 casement and one C19 horizontal sash of 12 lights in lean-to dormers. No. 6 has one sash of 16 lights, and one horizontal sash of 12 lights in a lean-to dormer. No. 8 has one horizontal sash of 12 lights, and one C20 casement in a lean-to dormer. All the ground-floor windows have moulded stone lintels. 5 identical late C19 4-panel doors, with 2 lights glazed with leaded coloured glass (no. 4 having 2 doors). 3 late C19 porches (2 double, one single) with gabled roofs supported on slender turned wooden stanchions. 2 courses of red brick near top of front elevation. An attractive group with The Old School House opposite; although windows have been changed at various periods the original apertures remain undisturbed, and the scale of the present windows remains consistent with the cottage character of the group.
Listing NGR: TL8494530366
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 115853
- 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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