CHAPEL COTTAGE

CHAPEL COTTAGE, THE GREEN

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Overview

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1123334
Date first listed:: 21-Dec-1967
List Entry Name:: CHAPEL COTTAGE
Statutory Address:: CHAPEL COTTAGE, THE GREEN

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Date:: 2002-08-15
Reference:: IOE01/03520/28
Rights:: © Mr Paul Perry. Source: Historic England Archive

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1123334
Date first listed:: 21-Dec-1967
List Entry Name:: CHAPEL COTTAGE
Statutory Address 1:: CHAPEL COTTAGE, THE GREEN

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:: CHAPEL COTTAGE, THE GREEN

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

County:: Essex
District:: Braintree (District Authority)
Parish:: Wethersfield
National Grid Reference:: TL 71117 31278

Details

TL 7031-7131 WETHERSFIELD THE GREEN (north side)

5/158 Chapel Cottage 21.12.67

GV II

House. Early C17, extended in C20. Timber framed, plastered, roofed with handmade red clay tiles. 2-bays aligned N-S, with external stack at N end, possibly built originally as an extension to Castle House, now separate. C20 extension to N, extending to E, forming an L-plan. 2 storeys. E elevation, one C20 splayed bay, 2 C20 casements, and on first floor one C19 casement and 2 C20 casements. C20 glazed door. S elevation, one C20 casement on each floor, pentice board, and high side purlins projecting through gable. The W elevation retains the head of an original oriel window, with mortices for 4 mullions and 3 diamond saddle bars, a rare feature (as illustrated in R. Harris, Discovering Timber Framed Buildings, 1978, 24, but ovolo moulded). Jowled posts, close studding. Chamfered transverse and axial beams with lamb's tongue stops, plain joists of vertical section. Underbuilt jetty to S, with one plain bracket enclosed. Original ceiling above first floor, the tiebeams and bridging beams chamfered with lamb's tongue stops. Large wood-burning hearth, the mantel beam chamfered wiht lamb's tongue stops, reduced for C20 grate. Clasped purlin roof. RCHM 13.

Listing NGR: TL7111931284

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Legacy System number:: 115670
Legacy System:: LBS

Sources

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Harris, R, Discovering Timber Framed Buildings, (1978), 24

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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.