Gull Cottages
GULL COTTAGES, 5-9, LANDERMERE QUAY
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1147807
- Date first listed:
- 11-Nov-1981
- List Entry Name:
- Gull Cottages
- Statutory Address:
- GULL COTTAGES, 5-9, LANDERMERE QUAY
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1147807
- Date first listed:
- 11-Nov-1981
- List Entry Name:
- Gull Cottages
- Statutory Address 1:
- GULL COTTAGES, 5-9, LANDERMERE QUAY
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:
- GULL COTTAGES, 5-9, LANDERMERE QUAY
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Essex
- District:
- Tendring (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Thorpe-le-Soken
- National Grid Reference:
- TM 19886 23827
Details
THORPE-LE-SOKEN LANDERMERE QUAY TM 12 SE (south side) 5/100 Nos. 5-9 (consec), Gull Cottages, 11.11.81 formerly listed as nos. 1-9, Gull Cottages GV II Range of 5 attached cottages. C19. Painted brick, roofed mainly with handmade red and yellow clay tiles, with machine-made red clay tiles on no.9 only. Single range facing NW, with 6 axial stacks. Single-storey lean-to extensions at rear. One storey with attics. Ground floor, 13 C20 casements, all in segmental arches except the first 4 at the right end, which have straight heads. 12 C20 metal casements in flat-roofed dormers. 6 plain boarded doors, all in segmental arches except the 2 at the right end, which have straight heads. Gambrel roofs. Nos. 6 and 7 have a dentilled eaves course. A stone tablet is inscribed 'The early house of the late Sir William Withey Gull, bart., born 1816, died 1890, physician to Queen Victoria'. The title was confered in 1872 for treating Prince Albert for typhoid fever in that year. In 1840 nearly all the cottages were occupied by mariners. (E.A. Wood, A History of Thorpe-le-Soken to the year 1890, 1975, 150).
Listing NGR: TM1988623827
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 120329
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Wood, E A, A History of Thorpe le Soken to the Year 1890, (1975), 150
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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