38 AND 40, BROOK STREET
38 AND 40, BROOK STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1123239
- Date first listed:
- 10-Apr-1987
- List Entry Name:
- 38 AND 40, BROOK STREET
- Statutory Address:
- 38 AND 40, BROOK STREET
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- Reference:
- IOE01/05577/12
- Rights:
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1123239
- Date first listed:
- 10-Apr-1987
- List Entry Name:
- 38 AND 40, BROOK STREET
- Statutory Address 1:
- 38 AND 40, 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:
- 38 AND 40, 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 84733 30398
Details
TL 8430--8530 COLNE ENGAINE BROOK STREET (north side)
7/6 Nos. 38 and 40
- II
House, now divided into 2. Late C16, altered in C19 and C20. Timber framed, plastered, roofed with handmade red plain tiles. 4 bays facing S with axial stack, originally forming a lobby-entrance plan, now divided on line of stack. Full-length catslide extension to rear, with 2 rear conservatories or glazed porches. One storey with attics. 4 C20 casements and 2 more in gabled half-dormers. 2 C20 doors in gabled porches. Roof raised. Concertina shafts on axial stack, reduced in height. Truncated external stack at right end. Jowled posts. No. 38 (at right) has plain longitudinal joists of horizontal section in the right bay, and in the left bay a chamfered axial beam and chamfered joists of horizontal section, all with lamb's tongue stops. The internal partition has curved braces trenched into heavy studs, and at the upper floor a C17 inserted doorway, now blocked. Large wood-burning hearth with cupboard in right jamb, door missing. No. 40 not inspected internally.
Listing NGR: TL8473330398
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 115855
- 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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