Fir Cottage
FIR COTTAGE, BRAINTREE ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1168308
- Date first listed:
- 19-Mar-1986
- List Entry Name:
- Fir Cottage
- Statutory Address:
- FIR COTTAGE, BRAINTREE ROAD
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1168308
- Date first listed:
- 19-Mar-1986
- List Entry Name:
- Fir Cottage
- Statutory Address 1:
- FIR COTTAGE, BRAINTREE 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:
- FIR COTTAGE, BRAINTREE 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:
- TL7190530372
Details
TL 73 SW
1/127
WETHERSFIELD
BRAINTREE ROAD
(east side)
Fir Cottage
II
Cottage. Late C17, altered in C19. Timber framed, plastered, roofed with
handmade red clay tiles. 3 bays facing SW, with central stack forming a
lobby-entrance. Single-storey lean-to extension at rear, roofed with corrugated
iron. One storey with attics. 2 late C19 splayed bays of casements, central
4-panel door, the upper panels glazed. Pargetted in panels with moulded
borders. Roof half-hipped at both ends, with original sprockets at half-hips.
Gabled porch on left end. Chamfered axial beam with lamb's tongue stops in
right bay. Chamfered transverse beam in left bay, unstopped. Hearths both
reduced for C20 grates. Face-halved and bladed scarf in rear wallplate.
Clasped purlin roof.
Listing NGR: TL7190530372
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 115640
- 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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