Spar Foodmarket

SPAR FOODMARKET, 15, HIGH STREET

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Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1170159
Date first listed:
10-Apr-1987
List Entry Name:
Spar Foodmarket
Statutory Address:
SPAR FOODMARKET, 15, HIGH STREET

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1170159
Date first listed:
10-Apr-1987
List Entry Name:
Spar Foodmarket
Statutory Address 1:
SPAR FOODMARKET, 15, 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.

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Corrections and minor amendments

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.

Understanding list entries

Corrections and minor amendments

Location

Statutory Address:
SPAR FOODMARKET, 15, HIGH STREET

The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.

County:
Essex
District:
Braintree (District Authority)
Parish:
Earls Colne
National Grid Reference:
TL 85669 28955

Details

TL 8428-8528 EARLS COLNE HIGH STREET (north side)

8/69 No. 15 (Spar Foodmarket)

GV II

House, now shop. Mid-C15, extended in C16 and altered in C20. Timber framed and plastered, with framing exposed on first floor front, roofed with handmade red plain tiles. Mid-C15 front range with C16 commercial range to rear, forming an L-plan. 2 storeys. Ground floor, C20 shopfront. First floor, 3 C19 sashes with marginal lights. Curved bracing trenched outside studs. 2 blocked original windows on first floor front. Stop-chamfered beams, arched-braced tiebeams, crownpost roof. Documentary evidence indicates that the rear range was built as weaving premises in 1566 (Wherein I Dwell, Earls Colne WEA, 1983, 50-1). RCHM 10.

Listing NGR: TL8566928955

Legacy

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Legacy System number:
115917
Legacy System:
LBS

Sources

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Wherein I Dwell, (1983), 50-1

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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