SPURGEON COTTAGE SPURGEON HOUSE

SPURGEON COTTAGE, 73, HIGH STREET

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1170300
Date first listed:: 21-Dec-1967
List Entry Name:: SPURGEON COTTAGE SPURGEON HOUSE
Statutory Address:: SPURGEON COTTAGE, 73, HIGH STREET

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Date:: 2002-03-28
Reference:: IOE01/06548/07
Rights:: © Mr Frank Swift. Source: Historic England Archive

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1170300
Date first listed:: 21-Dec-1967
List Entry Name:: SPURGEON COTTAGE SPURGEON HOUSE
Statutory Address 1:: SPURGEON COTTAGE, 73, HIGH STREET
Statutory Address 2:: SPURGEON HOUSE, 71, 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:: SPURGEON COTTAGE, 73, HIGH STREET
Statutory Address:: SPURGEON HOUSE, 71, HIGH STREET

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

County:: Essex
District:: Braintree (District Authority)
Parish:: Kelvedon
National Grid Reference:: TL 86052 18680

Details

KELVEDON HIGH STREET TL 8618-8718 (north-west side)

0/174 No. 71 (Spurgeon House) 21.12.67 and no. 73 (Spurgeon Cottage)

GV II

House, now pair of attached cottages. C18, altered in C19. Timber framed, facade of gault brick in Flemish bond, plastered and weatherboarded elsewhere, roofed with handmade red plain tiles. Single-span range facing SE, with axial stacks at left end and to right of centre. 3 adjacent rear wings; C20 stack at gabled end of left wing, C20 stack at hipped end of right wing; middle wing originally hipped, but extended in C19, with end stack, and C20 single-storey extension beyond, weatherboarded and roofed with red and blue glazed pantiles. Single-storey lean-to extension with slate roof to left of middle wing. 2 storeys. Ground floor, 2 mid-C19 splayed bays of sashes, one of 8-16-8 lights (no. 71), one altered to 2-2-2 lights (no. 73); and one early C19 sash of 16 lights. First floor, 3 similar sashes, with crown glass. 2 flush 4-panel doors with simple architraves and moulded flat canopies on scrolled brackets, and central 4-panel door in segmental arch. Round ceramic plaque on no. 71 to Charles Haddon Spurgeon, 1834-92, Baptist preacher and philanthropist, born there. Right return of main range weatherboarded on ground floor, plastered above; right side of right rear extension weatherboarded. Main roof hipped at right end. In the rear elevation of no. 71, on the first floor, is one C19 horizontal sash of 12 lights; and another on the left side of the middle rear wing. Abuts on no. 69 High Street at left (item 10/173, q.v.).

Listing NGR: TL8605218680

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Legacy System number:: 116487
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.