The Bakery and Burleigh Cottage
THE BAKERY AND BURLEIGH COTTAGE, HIGH STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1168649
- Date first listed:
- 21-Dec-1967
- List Entry Name:
- The Bakery and Burleigh Cottage
- Statutory Address:
- THE BAKERY AND BURLEIGH COTTAGE, HIGH STREET
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- Date:
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- Reference:
- IOE01/09858/34
- Rights:
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1168649
- Date first listed:
- 21-Dec-1967
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 19-Mar-1986
- List Entry Name:
- The Bakery and Burleigh Cottage
- Statutory Address 1:
- THE BAKERY AND BURLEIGH COTTAGE, HIGH 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:
- THE BAKERY AND BURLEIGH COTTAGE, HIGH STREET
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:
- TL7122631304
Details
TL 7031-7131
5/173
21.12.67
WETHERSFIELD
HIGH STREET
(north side)
The Bakery and Burleigh Cottage (formerly listed as Burghley Cottage and The Bakery
GV
II
House, now 2 houses and a shop. C.1580, extended in C17 and C18. 3 bays facing
SE with central stack, forming a lobby-entrance, and one-bay extension to right,
early C17. At left, set back from main elevation, C18 range extending to rear,
now The Bakery. Lean-to extension behind main range. 2 storeys and attics in
main range, 2 storeys in left range. Ground floor, C19 shopfront with glazed
door, both under slated canopy, 2 C19/C20 tripartite sashes of 2-4-2 lights, one
early C19 casement of 12 lights. First floor, 4 late C19 sashes of 6 lights.
One C20 door and one early C19 door with 6 flush panels, both under shallow
hoods. Grouped diagonal shafts. Roof of left range hipped. Jowled posts,
curved tension bracing trenched inside close studding. Underbuilt jetty at
front. Unglazed window with 3 diamond mullions in original right wall, now an
internal partition. Chamfered axial beams with lamb's tongue stops, plain
joists. Large wood-burning hearth facing right. In front of original middle
bay, at first floor, blocked original window with 2 moulded mullions and 3
diamond saddle bars. The combination of an original glazed window at the front,
an original unglazed window at the side and lamb's tongue stops, permits a close
dating of c.1580. Clasped purlin roof with arched wind bracing. RCHM 8.
Listing NGR: TL7122631304
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 115685
- 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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