78, HIGH STREET
78, HIGH STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1170242
- Date first listed:
- 10-Apr-1987
- List Entry Name:
- 78, HIGH STREET
- Statutory Address:
- 78, HIGH STREET
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- Date:
- 2001-08-01
- Reference:
- IOE01/04165/17
- Rights:
- © David Guthrie. Source: Historic England Archive
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1170242
- Date first listed:
- 10-Apr-1987
- List Entry Name:
- 78, HIGH STREET
- Statutory Address 1:
- 78, 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:
- 78, 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 85855 28871
Details
TL 8428-8528 EARLS COLNE HIGH STREET (south side)
8/86 No. 78
GV II
House, now commercial premises. C14, C16 and C19. Timber framed, plastered, partly clad with painted brick, roofed with machine-made red plain tiles and slate. C14 2-bay hall with inserted floor and originally storeyed bays each end, and crosswing of c.1500 to left. Fragment of C16 stack. C17 and later extensions to rear. 2 storeys and one storey with attics. Ground floor, 2 late C19 sashes of 4 lights. First floor, one similar sash and one more in gabled dormer. The crosswing is jettied to the street, with a square bay of similar sashes below the jetty. C19 ornamental tile-hanging and dentilled bands in both gables. C19 moulded and dentilled bargeboards on right gable, moulded bargeboards on left gable. Much of the original frame is exposed internally. Smoke-blackened rafters above hall. Crownpost roof in crosswing (Wherein I Dwell, Earls Colne WEA, 1983, 41).
Listing NGR: TL8585528871
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 115934
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Wherein I Dwell, (1983), 41
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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