Corbett Theatre E15 Acting School

CORBETT THEATRE E15 ACTING SCHOOL, RECTORY LANE

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Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1165679
Date first listed:
29-May-1984
List Entry Name:
Corbett Theatre E15 Acting School
Statutory Address:
CORBETT THEATRE E15 ACTING SCHOOL, RECTORY LANE
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Official list entry

Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1165679
Date first listed:
29-May-1984
List Entry Name:
Corbett Theatre E15 Acting School
Statutory Address 1:
CORBETT THEATRE E15 ACTING SCHOOL, RECTORY 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.

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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.

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Corrections and minor amendments

Location

Statutory Address:
CORBETT THEATRE E15 ACTING SCHOOL, RECTORY LANE

The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.

County:
Essex
District:
Epping Forest (District Authority)
Parish:
Loughton
National Grid Reference:
TQ 43775 96615

Details

TQ 49 NW LOUGHTON RECTORY LANE, 1/37 corbett Theatre, E15 Acting School GV II

Aisled barn, C15, rebuilt as a theatre. Timber-framed, with walls of red brick and flint rubble, roofed with slate. 5 bays aligned approx. NW-SE. Jowled posts, straight tiebeams, arched braces to arcade plates and tiebeams. No aisle shores. Edge-halved and bridled scarfs in both arcade plates; SE end of SW arcade plate repaired with old timber. Arcade posts mounted on plinths of red brick with concrete coping. Queen strut roof, hipped at SE end, half-hipped at NW end over short extension. Single storey foyer and bar to SW, C20. The timber frame was removed from its original site at Ditchling, Sussex, c.1967 and re-erected on its present site with new walls and foyer/bar extension. Measured drawings of the timber frame supplied with planning application W/CHIG/181/65, on file with Epping Forest District Council.

Listing NGR: TQ4377996563

Legacy

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Legacy System number:
118636
Legacy System:
LBS

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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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