Blackwater Cottage
BLACKWATER COTTAGE, 32 AND 34, EAST STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1169706
- Date first listed:
- 31-Oct-1966
- List Entry Name:
- Blackwater Cottage
- Statutory Address:
- BLACKWATER COTTAGE, 32 AND 34, EAST STREET
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1169706
- Date first listed:
- 31-Oct-1966
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 06-Sept-1988
- List Entry Name:
- Blackwater Cottage
- Statutory Address 1:
- BLACKWATER COTTAGE, 32 AND 34, EAST 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:
- BLACKWATER COTTAGE, 32 AND 34, EAST STREET
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Essex
- District:
- Braintree (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Coggeshall
- National Grid Reference:
- TL 85106 22568
Details
TL 8422-8522 COGGESHALL EAST STREET (south side)
9/112 Nos. 32 and 34 31.10.66 (Blackwater Cottage) (formerly listed as Nos. 28, 30 and 32)
GV II
Wrongly shown on OS map as no. 30 and adjacent to house to E. Part of house, now 2 houses. 1585, altered in C19 and C20. Timber framed, plastered with some exposed framing, roofed with handmade red plain tiles. 4 bays of main range facing N, with 2 C19 axial stacks. Originally this range continued to the right for 2 bays; one bay has been demolished to make a vehicle access, the other is now part of no. 18 (item 9/110, q.v.). 2-bay wing to rear of left end. Catslide extension to rear of remainder. 2 storeys. Ground floor, 2 early C19 tripartite sashes of 4-12-4 lights, or replicas, and one early C19 sash of 16 lights. First floor, 4 C20 casements. 2 C20 half-glazed doors, recessed below underbuilt jetty. Exposed original bressumer carved in high relief with date 1585, defaced initials, grotesque beasts and scrolls, and exposed close studding above. A C20 window in the right return has an attached strip of foliate carving. In the right elevation of the rear wing, on the first floor, is an C18 wrought iron casement with rectangular leading. Jowled posts, chamfered axial beams, unstopped, plain joists of horizontal section where exposed. Inserted softwood post in rear wing. Cambered tiebeams, clasped purlin roofs with arched wind- bracing, including some lightly smoke-blackened rafters re-used from a medieval hall. Construction fairly plain apart from carved bressumer. Converted in early C19 into a complex of small cottages, and restored c.1974 with Essex County Council's Revolving Fund, architect James Boutwood. Formerly the Blue House, later The George Public House (G.F. Beaumont, A History of Coggeshall in Essex, 1890, 241). RCHM 69.
Listing NGR: TL8510622568
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 116143
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Beaumont, GF, A History of Coggeshall in Essex, (1890), 241
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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