THE BAKERY AND BURLEIGH COTTAGE

THE BAKERY AND BURLEIGH COTTAGE, HIGH STREET

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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:: 2003-02-26
Reference:: IOE01/09858/34
Rights:: © Mr Frank Swift. Source: Historic England Archive

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Official list entry

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

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.

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This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

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.

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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

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Legacy System number:: 115685
Legacy System:: LBS

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This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.