The Thatched Cottage
THE THATCHED COTTAGE, BLACKMORE END ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1168190
- Date first listed:
- 19-Mar-1986
- List Entry Name:
- The Thatched Cottage
- Statutory Address:
- THE THATCHED COTTAGE, BLACKMORE END ROAD
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1168190
- Date first listed:
- 19-Mar-1986
- List Entry Name:
- The Thatched Cottage
- Statutory Address 1:
- THE THATCHED COTTAGE, BLACKMORE END ROAD
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 THATCHED COTTAGE, BLACKMORE END ROAD
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Essex
- District:
- Braintree (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Wethersfield
- National Grid Reference:
- TL7398330723
Details
TL 73 SW
1/100
WETHERSFIELD
BLACKMORE END ROAD
(south-west side)
The Thatched Cottage
GV
II
House. Early C16 or earlier, altered c.1600 and in C19. Timber framed,
plastered, roof thatched. 2-bay hall facing NE, with C17/C18 stack at left end,
and storeyed parlour/solar bay to right. C19 stack to right, and C19 one-bay
extension beyond. Single-storey lean-to extension to rear, roofed with
corrugated iron. One storey with attics. Ground floor, 2 C19 horizontally
sliding sashes of 12 lights, and one C19 small casement. First floor, 2 similar
sashes in gabled dormers. 2 plain boarded doors. Beam of inserted floor
projects through front wall, morticed and tusk-tenoned. Jowled posts with step
stops, heavy studding, diamond mortices of former unglazed windows in front and
rear walls of hall. The inserted floor in the hall comprises a chamfered
transverse beam with elaborated step stops, tusk-tenoned at both ends, and plain
longitudinal joists of horizontal section supported on pegged clamps, c.1600.
The roof of tne hall is of collar-rafter construction, all timbers heavily
smoke-blackened. The central tiebeam of the hall has been removed. The tiebeam
between hall and solar has been severed for an inserted doorway. The roof of
the solar has been rebuilt. This house has passed through the stage of being
adapted to form 2 cottages in the early C19, and re-combined.
Listing NGR: TL7398330723
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 115614
- 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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