The Cottage the Mews
THE COTTAGE, VICARAGE LANE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1165466
- Date first listed:
- 29-May-1984
- List Entry Name:
- The Cottage the Mews
- Statutory Address:
- THE COTTAGE, VICARAGE LANE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1165466
- Date first listed:
- 29-May-1984
- List Entry Name:
- The Cottage the Mews
- Statutory Address 1:
- THE COTTAGE, VICARAGE LANE
- Statutory Address 2:
- THE MEWS, VICARAGE LANE
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, VICARAGE LANE
- Statutory Address:
- THE MEWS, VICARAGE LANE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Essex
- District:
- Epping Forest (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Chigwell
- National Grid Reference:
- TQ 44904 93402
Details
TQ 49 SE CHIGWELL VICARAGE LANE 5/23 The Mews and The Cottage GV II
Coach-house/stable block, early C19, approx. 40 metres N of Forest House, converted to 2 dwellings in C20. Stock bricks, Flemish bond, slate roofs. Square coach-house with upper floor, and 2 equal single-storey wings to NW and SE, the former comprising a cottage with one internal chimney stack, the SE comprising 2 stables. Extended to SE by one bay in C19, with lean-to roof. SW elevation, 5 round arches of gauged brick, now blocked, with C20 windows. String course of stucco at arch spring level on the wings only, with a rectangular recess above each arch. Dentilled band across middle arch, formerly the top of the coach entrance. First floor, 3 double-hung sash windows of 6 lights under segmental brick arches, early C19. Roof of central block pyramidal, wings hipped,'all of shallow pitch. NE elevation, facing road in central block, 2 double-hung sash windows of 6 lights with segmental arches of gauged brick and a similar blank aperture between on each floor, with a chimney behind the blanks. To each side, 2 arched recesses, the outer ones blank, the inner ones with windows as above. String course of stucco at arch spring level.
Listing NGR: TQ4490493402
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 118605
- 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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