RUSKETT'S COTTAGES

RUSKETT'S COTTAGES, 1 AND 2, SPRIGG'S LANE

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1197176
Date first listed:: 20-Feb-1976
List Entry Name:: RUSKETT'S COTTAGES
Statutory Address:: RUSKETT'S COTTAGES, 1 AND 2, SPRIGG'S LANE

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Date:: 1999-10-05
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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1197176
Date first listed:: 20-Feb-1976
Date of most recent amendment:: 09-Dec-1994
List Entry Name:: RUSKETT'S COTTAGES
Statutory Address 1:: RUSKETT'S COTTAGES, 1 AND 2, SPRIGG'S LANE

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:: RUSKETT'S COTTAGES, 1 AND 2, SPRIGG'S LANE

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

County:: Essex
District:: Brentwood (District Authority)
Parish:: Blackmore, Hook End and Wyatts Green
National Grid Reference:: TL 61207 02314

Details

BLACKMORE

TL60SW SPRIGG'S LANE 723-1/2/43 (East side) 20/02/76 Nos.1 AND 2 Ruskett's Cottages (Formerly Listed as: BRENTWOOD SPRIGGS LANE, Blackmore Nos.1 AND 2 Rusketts Cottages)

II

House, now 2 houses. c1500, altered in C17, C18 and C20. Timber-framed, plastered, roofed with handmade red clay tiles. Small medieval house of 4 bays facing W, extended to right by one bay c1984. C16 axial stack in middle of whole range. No.1 comprises the part to left of the middle of the stack, No.2 comprises the part to the right. One storey with attics, No.1 has a C20 single-storey wing to rear of the left bay, and a lean-to extension to right of it. No.2 has a C20 single-storey wing to rear right, and a lean-to extension to left of it, roofed with felt. Four C20 casements, and 2 more in gabled dormers (one in each house). Two C20 doors. Gambrel roof. Shaft cement-rendered. INTERIOR: at the time of inspection, January 1989, No.1 was undergoing major renovation, with the frame fully exposed internally; No.2 was fully plastered internally. No.1 comprises (up to tie-beam level) the parlour/solar bay and hall of the medieval house, the stack being in the shorter right bay of the 2-bay hall. Jowled posts, heavy studding, cambered tie-beam. In the rear wall of the left bay is a framed original window, with 4 diamond mortices at top and bottom. The floor of the left bay has been rebuilt in the C18, with plain joists of vertical section. The right bay has an inserted floor of the C17, with a chamfered axial beam and plain joists of vertical section, of heavier quality than in the left bay. The roof has been wholly rebuilt in the C18 in gambrel form. The C16 stack has been altered in the C18, the size of the hearth reduced with C18 bricks, but retaining the original mantel beam, with another below it. No.2 is wholly plastered internally, but is believed to comprise the service bay of the medieval house, and has an extension of 1984 to right of it. One jowled post outlined in plaster in front wall. C20 grate.

Listing NGR: TL6120702314

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Legacy System number:: 373345
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.