Valley Cottage
VALLEY COTTAGE, BRIDGE END
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1123503
- Date first listed:
- 21-Dec-1967
- List Entry Name:
- Valley Cottage
- Statutory Address:
- VALLEY COTTAGE, BRIDGE END
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1123503
- Date first listed:
- 21-Dec-1967
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 17-May-1985
- List Entry Name:
- Valley Cottage
- Statutory Address 1:
- VALLEY COTTAGE, BRIDGE END
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:
- VALLEY COTTAGE, BRIDGE END
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 67522 30972
Details
TL 6730 GREAT BARDFIELD BRIDGE END (west side)
8/133 Valley Cottage and Fullbridge Cottage 21.12.67
GV II
House, now divided into 2 houses. C15, extended in C18 and C20. Timber framed, plastered, roofed with handmade red clay tiles. 2-bay hall facing E with C19 central stack, 2-bay service crosswing to right, and C18 2-bay 2-storey extension beyond, with internal stack. Crosswing to left, on site of original parlour/solar, 1977. Hall of one storey with attics, remainder of 2 storeys. 5-window range of C20 casements, of which 2 are in gabled dormers and one in a swept dormer. 2 C20 doors. Both the original crosswing and the 1977 crosswing are jettied to the front. One plain bracket below the former. Valley Cottage comprises the hall and the 1977 left extension, Fullbridge Cottage comprises the right (service) crosswing and the C18 right extension. The interior of Valley Cottage has jowled posts, display bracing at the high end of the hall, a rebated parlour doorway with 4-centred head and original hinges, an incomplete 4-centred doorhead of the rear entrance, one arched brace to the central cambered tiebeam, a cross-quadrate crownpost of eccentric section, and a complete crownpost roof, heavily smoke-blackened above present ceiling level. Late C16 inserted floor, with chamfered axial beam and exposed plain joists of horizontal section. Chamfered wallplates with step stops, and rebate for shutters of hall window. RCHM 37.
Listing NGR: TL6752230972
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 115272
- 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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