Serjeant Bendlowes Cottage
SERJEANT BENDLOWES COTTAGE, BROOK STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1123466
- Date first listed:
- 21-Dec-1967
- List Entry Name:
- Serjeant Bendlowes Cottage
- Statutory Address:
- SERJEANT BENDLOWES COTTAGE, BROOK STREET
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1123466
- Date first listed:
- 21-Dec-1967
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 17-May-1985
- List Entry Name:
- Serjeant Bendlowes Cottage
- Statutory Address 1:
- SERJEANT BENDLOWES COTTAGE, BROOK 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.
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:
- SERJEANT BENDLOWES COTTAGE, BROOK STREET
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Essex
- District:
- Braintree (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Great Bardfield
- National Grid Reference:
- TL 67656 30551
Details
TL 6730 GREAT BARDFIELD BROOK STREET (north side)
8/152 Serjeant Bendlowes 21.12.67 Cottage (Formerly listed as Sergeant GV II Bendlowes Cottage and Cottage on E. of Sergeant Bendlowes Cottage) Two buildings, formerly listed separately, now combined and listed as one item. House, early C17, and cottage C18/C19, combined in C20. Timber framed, plastered with some exposed framing, roofs vainly thatched, central part of front pitch of handmade red clay tiles. House of 4 bays facing S, with central stack forming a lobby-entrance, and left end at an obtuse angle to front, following the line of Crown Street. C18/C19 extension to rear of left end, with internal stack at corner: One metre to right, cottage of 3 bays at right angles to street, C18/C19, now combined with the larger house. One storey with attics. 6 late C19 Gothic Revival casements, and 2 more in tiled gabled dormers. Plain labels over lower windows. Late C19 pierced bargeboards on dormers. Plain boarded door. Grouped diagonal shafts on vain stack. Roof of cottage half- hipped at front and back. The interior of the house has jowled posts, exposed studding, chamfered transverse beams with plain stops, exposed joists of square section, clasped purlin roof with some reused smoke-blackened rafters. The cottage has unjowled posts, exposed studding with primary straight bracing, some pegged joints but mostly nailed. The present attic floor is at wallplate level but there are indications that earlier it was lower. Serjeant Bendlowe's Cottage belonged to Bendlowe's Charity until 1951, and was formerly divided into 4 almshouses. RCHM 11.
Listing NGR: TL6765630551
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 115291
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Other
An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in Essex North West, (1916)
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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