Leydens Cottage
LEYDENS COTTAGE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1123943
- Date first listed:
- 26-Apr-1984
- List Entry Name:
- Leydens Cottage
- Statutory Address:
- LEYDENS COTTAGE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1123943
- Date first listed:
- 26-Apr-1984
- List Entry Name:
- Leydens Cottage
- Statutory Address 1:
- LEYDENS 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:
- LEYDENS COTTAGE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Essex
- District:
- Epping Forest (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Magdalen Laver
- National Grid Reference:
- TL 51758 06761
Details
TL 518 068 MAGDALEN LAVER 5/38 Leydens Cottage II
Cottage, C17 or earlier. Timber framed, plastered with weatherboarded dado, roof thatched. 2 bays aligned approx. E-W, aspect S, with internal chimney stack at W end. Lean-to extension at E end. C20 single storey extension to W, roofed with machine made red clay tiles. Single storey with attic. C20 door in lean-to porch roofed with machine-made red clay tiles, 3 C20 casement windows leaded and one not leaded, C20 casement window, leaded, in tiled gabled dormer. Roof hipped to E, forming catslide over extension, gabled to W. Some framing exposed internally. Longitudinal joists, unchamfered.
Listing NGR: TL5175806761
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 118110
- 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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