Pickstone's Cottages
PICKSTONE'S COTTAGES, 1 AND 2, TAN OFFICE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1171391
- Date first listed:
- 06-Sept-1988
- List Entry Name:
- Pickstone's Cottages
- Statutory Address:
- PICKSTONE'S COTTAGES, 1 AND 2, TAN OFFICE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1171391
- Date first listed:
- 06-Sept-1988
- List Entry Name:
- Pickstone's Cottages
- Statutory Address 1:
- PICKSTONE'S COTTAGES, 1 AND 2, TAN OFFICE
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:
- PICKSTONE'S COTTAGES, 1 AND 2, TAN OFFICE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Essex
- District:
- Braintree (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Stisted
- National Grid Reference:
- TL 80603 25230
Details
TL 82 NW STISTED TAN OFFICE (north-east side)
2/301 Nos. 1 and 2, Pickstone's Cottages
GV II
Wrongly shown on OS map as Peckstone's Farm. House, now 2 cottages. Circa 1500 or earlier, extended in C17, altered in C19 and C20. Timber framed, plastered, roofed with machine-made red plain tiles. 2-bay hall facing NW with 2 originally storeyed end bays. C17 one-bay extension to right. 2 C20 flat- roofed single-storey extensions to rear. The building has been symmetrically divided into 2 cottages, with a central stack (probably C17) and C19/20 external stacks at each end. One storey with attics. Ground floor, 6 C20 casements with rectangular and diamond leading, and 2 at half-floor level with diamond leading. 2 C20 casements in gabled dormers. 2 C20 doors with corbelled flat canopies. Jowled posts. All internal tiebeams missing. In the front wallplate, to right of centre, is a rebate with angled ends, believed to be for the shutters of the hall window, indicating that the parlour/solar bay was at the right of the hall. The post near the middle of the rear wall of the hall has a long chase-mortice for a former brace to the middle tiebeam. To left of the stack is an inserted floor of c.1570, comprising a chamfered transverse beam with step stops lodged at the rear end, supported on a prick-post at the front, and a chamfered axial beam with lamb's tongue stops; the joists are plastered to the soffits. To right of the stack is an inserted floor comprising a chamfered axial beam with lamb's tongue stops, and plain joists of square section jointed to it with soffit tenons and diminished haunches, apparently flooring the 'high' end of the hall and the former parlour/solar bay in one. The mantel beam of a wood-burning hearth is exposed on this side, blocked below for a C20 grate. The left bay (originally the service bay) has an axial beam with mortices of a former partition, and plain joists of square section which have been raised approximately 0.25 metre, on nailed clamps. The tiebeam at this end has a chamfered cut-out below with step stops, for a C16 inserted window. The C17 extension to right has plain joists of square section. The roof is reported to have been thatched until renovation in the 1930s. The tithe award of 1840 records Peckstones as a farm of 22 acres belonging to the Free School of Earl's Colne (Essex Record Office, D/CT 355). It is shown on an estate map of the same foundation in 1623 (Essex Record Office, D/Q 6/35).
Listing NGR: TL8060325230
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 116320
- Legacy System:
- LBS
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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