Tan Cottage
TAN COTTAGE, TAN OFFICE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1123875
- Date first listed:
- 06-Sept-1988
- List Entry Name:
- Tan Cottage
- Statutory Address:
- TAN COTTAGE, TAN OFFICE
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- Date:
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- Reference:
- IOE01/05884/29
- Rights:
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1123875
- Date first listed:
- 06-Sept-1988
- List Entry Name:
- Tan Cottage
- Statutory Address 1:
- TAN COTTAGE, TAN OFFICE
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:
- TAN COTTAGE, TAN OFFICE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Essex
- District:
- Braintree (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Stisted
- National Grid Reference:
- TL 80510 25166
Details
TL 82 NW STISTED TAN OFFICE (north-west side)
2/300 Tan Cottage
GV II
Cottage. Circa 1500, extended c.1950. Timber framed, plastered, roofed with handmade red plain tiles. 2 bays facing SE, with later external stack at right end, now incorporated in large extension of c.1950. One storey with attics. 4 C20 casements, C19 plain boarded door. One gabled dormer with C20 casement to rear. C19 octagonal shaft on stack. Jowled posts, heavy studding, cambered central tiebeam. Shutter groove in rear wallplate of right bay. Inserted floors in both bays, of plain joists of square and vertical section arranged longitudinally, on pegged and nailed clamps. Stair with quarter-turn at bottom in front left corner. Hearth facing cottage blocked, C20 grate inserted to right of stack; tiled shoulders of stack inside extension. Brick floor in right bay. Crownpost roof with arched axial braces 32mm thick, intact in left bay, cut back in right bay. Rafters lightly smoke-blackened, probably thatched originally. RCHM 7.
Listing NGR: TL8051025166
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 116319
- 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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