Marchants
MARCHANTS
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1123418
- Date first listed:
- 13-Mar-1986
- List Entry Name:
- Marchants
- Statutory Address:
- MARCHANTS
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- Reference:
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1123418
- Date first listed:
- 13-Mar-1986
- List Entry Name:
- Marchants
- Statutory Address 1:
- MARCHANTS
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:
- MARCHANTS
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Essex
- District:
- Braintree (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Terling
- National Grid Reference:
- TL 76268 14783
Details
TL 7614 TERLING GAMBLES GREEN (north-west side)
10/132 Marchants
GV II
Cottage. Late C16, altered in early C17, C18 and C20. Timber framed, plastered, roof partly thatched, partly of handmade red clay tiles. 2 bays facing SE, thatched, with external stack at right end, and single-storey lean-to extension to rear. C18 2-bay extension to left, formerly comprising another cottage, the roof tiled, with axial stack at the junction and external stack at left end. One storey with attics. Ground floor, 2 C19 casements, 3 C20 casements, and C20 bow window. First floor, 5 C19 casements in gabled dormers. Plain boarded door, and C20 door in lean-to porch. The original build has jowled posts, straight braces trenched inside the studs, and a clasped purlin roof with arched wind-bracing. Early C17 floor comprising a chamfered transverse beam with lamb's tongue stops, lap-dovetailed to the posts, with plain joists of vertical section jointed to it with soffit tenons with diminished haunches. The rear central post has been severed below the joint and moved inwards. The left extension has unjowled posts and primary straight bracing. Central stack much altered. A messuage called Merchants with one acre is mentioned in a rental of the manor of Ringers in 1761 (Essex Record Office, D/DRa T.59).
Listing NGR: TL7626814783
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 115480
- 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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