Dowsetts
DOWSETTS
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1165741
- Date first listed:
- 26-Apr-1984
- List Entry Name:
- Dowsetts
- Statutory Address:
- DOWSETTS
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1165741
- Date first listed:
- 26-Apr-1984
- List Entry Name:
- Dowsetts
- Statutory Address 1:
- DOWSETTS
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:
- DOWSETTS
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Essex
- District:
- Epping Forest (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Magdalen Laver
- National Grid Reference:
- TL 51141 06627
Details
TL 50 NW MAGDALEN LAVER 5/37 Dowsetts
- II
Hall house, C16, extended in C17, C19 and C20. Timber framed, plastered, roof thatched. 2 bays aligned approx. N-S, with inserted chimney stack at S end, now mainly C20 brickwork. Floor inserted in hall and one bay added to S, C17. Lean-to extension at rear, C19, forming a catslide roof. Lean-to extensions to N and S, roofed with red clay pantiles, C19. C20 extension to SW. E elevation, halved door at front of tiled gabled porch, 5 casement windows, all C20, and 2 more in gabled dormers. Some framing exposed internally. Jowled posts, central tiebeam severed, edge-halved and bridled scarf in E wallplate, clasped pulin roof with straight wind bracing, lightly smoke-blackened. Inserted floor consisting of axial beam with unchamfered joists of vertical section supported on clamps. An indenture in the possession of the owner records a bargain and sale of the property to Richard Dowsett in 1688, the origin of the name.
Listing NGR: TL5114106627
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 118107
- 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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