Portobello Cottage
PORTOBELLO COTTAGE, CHAPEL STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1166217
- Date first listed:
- 21-Jun-1962
- List Entry Name:
- Portobello Cottage
- Statutory Address:
- PORTOBELLO COTTAGE, CHAPEL STREET
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1166217
- Date first listed:
- 21-Jun-1962
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 21-Jun-1963
- List Entry Name:
- Portobello Cottage
- Statutory Address 1:
- PORTOBELLO COTTAGE, CHAPEL STREET
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:
- PORTOBELLO COTTAGE, CHAPEL STREET
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Essex
- District:
- Braintree (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Steeple Bumpstead
- National Grid Reference:
- TL 68065 41111
Details
TL 64 SE STEEPLE BUMPSTEAD CHAPEL STREET 2/64 21/6/62 Portobello Cottage
GV II
House, C17, altered in C18 and C20. Timber framed, weatherboarded, roof thatched. 2 bays aligned approx. N-S with axial chimney stack in N bay, and 2-bay crosswing to N, forming an L-plan, with C19 external chimney stack on N wall. Early C20 extension with slate roof to E of crosswing, and later C20 flat-roofed extension to E of N-S range. Single storey with attics. W elevation, C20 glazed door, one tripartite double-hung sash window of 2-4-2 lights, one double-hung sash window of 4 lights, and one more on first floor, all late C19. Recessed panel in base of main chimney stack. The interior has jowled posts and heavy studding. The floor of the N-S range has plain-chamfered beams with lamb's tongue stops and joists of vertical section jointed to them with soffit tenons with diminished haunches. The floor of the crosswing has been rebuilt in the C18. Large wood-burning hearth of C17 bricks. RCHM 17.
Listing NGR: TL6806541111
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 114198
- 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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