The Cottage
THE COTTAGE, 59, THE CAUSEWAY
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1165315
- Date first listed:
- 29-Aug-1984
- List Entry Name:
- The Cottage
- Statutory Address:
- THE COTTAGE, 59, THE CAUSEWAY
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1165315
- Date first listed:
- 29-Aug-1984
- List Entry Name:
- The Cottage
- Statutory Address 1:
- THE COTTAGE, 59, THE CAUSEWAY
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:
- THE COTTAGE, 59, THE CAUSEWAY
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Essex
- District:
- Braintree (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Toppesfield
- National Grid Reference:
- TL 73831 36963
Details
TL 73 NW TOPPESFIELD THE CAUSEWAY, East Side 3/9 No. 59 (The Cottage) II House, c.1600 and c.1700, altered in C20. Timber framed, plastered, roof thatched. 2 bays aligned approx. N-S, with central chimney stack, c.1600. 2-bay crosswing to S, structurally separate, with external chimney stack on S wall, c.1700. Single-storey extension to S with catslide roof, single-store weatherboarded extension to N with lean-to roof, and single-storey extensions to E. Aspect W. 2 storeys. Plain boarded door and 3-window range of C20 casements. The interior of the northern part has jowled posts, curved bracing trenched inside heavy studding, chamfered axial beam with lamb's tongue stops, and plain joists of horizontal section. In the upper rear wall there is a blocked original window, probably of early glazed type. The roof is of clasped purlin construction with curved wind braces. The ground floor hearth is large rebuilt up to mantel level. The southern part has simpler framing, without jowls, partly pegged and partly nailed, with a clasped purlin roof, rafters pegged at the apices.
Listing NGR: TL7383136963
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 114494
- 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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