River Hill Cottage
RIVER HILL COTTAGE, 2, OWLS HILL
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1147486
- Date first listed:
- 13-Mar-1986
- List Entry Name:
- River Hill Cottage
- Statutory Address:
- RIVER HILL COTTAGE, 2, OWLS HILL
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1147486
- Date first listed:
- 13-Mar-1986
- List Entry Name:
- River Hill Cottage
- Statutory Address 1:
- RIVER HILL COTTAGE, 2, OWLS HILL
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:
- RIVER HILL COTTAGE, 2, OWLS HILL
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Essex
- District:
- Braintree (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Terling
- National Grid Reference:
- TL 76859 15142
Details
TL 7615 TERLING OWL'S HILL (south side)
8/142 No. 2 River Hill Cottages
GV II
House. Early C16, altered in C17. Timber framed, plastered, roofed with handmade red clay tiles. 3 bays facing SW, at right angles to No. 3 River Hill Cottages and connecting with it at the left end. Internal stack at rear of left bay. Internal stack at right end of middle bay against rear wall. One storey with attics. 3 C20 casements and 3 more in gabled dormers. C20 door at front of small lean-to porch. Full-length jetty, underbuilt but visible externally. NE elevation (facing Owl's Hill), 2 C20 casements, C20 door at side of lean-to porch. The left bay has an exceptionally wide wood-burning hearth with cambered mantel beam, effectively the same length as the bay, probably part of a timber framed chimney of which nothing else is exposed, reduced for a modern stove. The other stack has a chamfered straight mantel beam with plain stops, for a wood-burning hearth, reduced for a C20 grate. Chamfered axial beam with lamb's tongue stops, raised at the hearth end on a short post with similar detail, with Cl9/C20 joists. Jowled posts, close studding, shutter groove for unglazed window below jetty. The SW wall has subsided unevenly and has been raised approx. 0.50 metre with an additional wallplate, and the roof rebuilt. This subsidence probably accounts for the raising of the first floor also. RCHM 17.
Listing NGR: TL7685915142
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 115490
- 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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