Elm Cottage
ELM COTTAGE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1123930
- Date first listed:
- 26-Apr-1984
- List Entry Name:
- Elm Cottage
- Statutory Address:
- ELM COTTAGE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1123930
- Date first listed:
- 26-Apr-1984
- List Entry Name:
- Elm Cottage
- Statutory Address 1:
- ELM COTTAGE
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:
- ELM COTTAGE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Essex
- District:
- Epping Forest (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Matching
- National Grid Reference:
- TL 53306 10720
Details
TL 5331 1072 HIGH LAVER Elm Cottage 3/103 II
House, late C16, extended in C19 and C20. Timber framed, partly infilled with brick, partly plastered, roof thatched. 4 bays aligned approx. N-S, aspect E, with chimney stack in second bay from N, facing S against E wall. Brick extension to S, with chimney stack in NE corner, C19. Extension to W from N end, C20, forming an L-plan. Small extension to N and covered way along rest of N elevation, C20. Conservatory in SW angle, C20. Single storey with attics. E elevation, painted brickwork at each end, exposed timber framing with brick infill between. 2 casement windows, 3 double-hung sash windows, all C20. 3 eyebrow dormers with horizontally sliding sash windows of 8 lights, late C19. Roof hipped at both ends. Some framing exposed internally. Arched braces rising from corner posts to tiebeams and wallplates, trenched inside studs. Framing of upper part of original S end, weathered, exposed inside C19 extension, with mortices for 4 diamond mullions between tiebeams and collar, off centre. Similar mortices for equivalent unglazed window at N end, also off centre. Lodged longitudinal joists unchamfered, in S bay. Transverse beam immediately S of main chimney stack, and joists of vertical section, both plain chamfered with lamb's tongue stops. In hearth blocked aperture for bread oven outside E wall, demolished. Straight joint through building immediately N of chimney stack, indicating a phased building programme, both parts late C16. Roof of clasped purlin construction with curved wind-bracing, not smoke- blackened. This house was built in the late C16, much on the medieval pattern but with an original chimney stack. The 'hall' may have been open originally, for the floor in this section seems slightly later in date than the remainder; if inserted, it would have been within a decade or two of 1600. The ends were storeyed from the outset. In the early C19 this house was divided into 2 tenements at the hall/parlour partition, and extended to the S with an extra chimney stack. There is a C19 cast iron grate at the upper level. In the early C20 the lower part of the original S end was removed, the remainder supported by an RSJ, to convert 2 small rooms into one large one.
Listing NGR: TL5330610720
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 118080
- 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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