Roffey Cottages
ROFFEY COTTAGES, 1 AND 2
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1166235
- Date first listed:
- 26-Apr-1984
- List Entry Name:
- Roffey Cottages
- Statutory Address:
- ROFFEY COTTAGES, 1 AND 2
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1166235
- Date first listed:
- 26-Apr-1984
- List Entry Name:
- Roffey Cottages
- Statutory Address 1:
- ROFFEY COTTAGES, 1 AND 2
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:
- ROFFEY COTTAGES, 1 AND 2
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Essex
- District:
- Epping Forest (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Matching
- National Grid Reference:
- TL 49956 11018
Details
TL 41 SE MATCHING HARLOW TYE Nos. 1 and 2 (Roffey 2/33 Cottages)
GV II
House, C16 or earlier, altered in C17 and C19, now 2 cottages. Timber framed, roughcast rendered, roofed with handmade red clay tiles. 4 bays aligned approx. NE-SW, aspect NW. Chimney stack in second bay from SW, forming a lobby entrance (door no. 2). External chimney stack on NE end. Lean-to extension to rear, and single storey extension to rear of SW bay, C19. 2 storeys. Ground floor, 2 plain boarded doors, C19/20, 3 casement windows and 2 fixed lights, C20. Roof hipped at both ends. Original wallplates immediately above first-floor level, containing edge halved and bridled scarfs. Middle tiebeam missing, others in situ. Second set of wall plates and tiebeams approx. 1.5 metres above the first. Floor in 2 middle bays supported on pegged clamps. Axial beams, plain chamfered with lamb's tongue stops, joists of vertical section unchamfered above ground and first floor. No wall framing exposed. Originally this house had eaves only about 2.5 metres high. The fact that the inserted floor in the 2 middle bays is supported on clamps suggests that it was an open hall. In the C17 the walls were raised by approx. 1.5 metres and the roof rebuilt, and it became a lobby-entrance house of 2 full storeys. In the C19 it was divided into cottages. This appears to be the same house which the RCHM recorded in Harlow parish (18) with grouped diagonal chimney shafts, but they are no longer present.
Listing NGR: TL4995611018
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 118151
- 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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