Boyles Court Cottages
BOYLES COURT COTTAGES, 2 AND 3, DARK LANE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1197204
- Date first listed:
- 20-Feb-1976
- List Entry Name:
- Boyles Court Cottages
- Statutory Address:
- BOYLES COURT COTTAGES, 2 AND 3, DARK LANE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1197204
- Date first listed:
- 20-Feb-1976
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 09-Dec-1994
- List Entry Name:
- Boyles Court Cottages
- Statutory Address 1:
- BOYLES COURT COTTAGES, 2 AND 3, DARK LANE
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:
- BOYLES COURT COTTAGES, 2 AND 3, DARK LANE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Essex
- District:
- Brentwood (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Non Civil Parish
- National Grid Reference:
- TQ 58276 91301
Details
BRENTWOOD
TQ59SE DARK LANE, Great Warley 723-1/8/135 (West side) 20/02/76 Nos.2 AND 3 Boyles Court Cottages (Formerly Listed as: DARK LANE, Great Warley Nos.2 AND 3 Boyles Cottages)
GV II
Pair of cottages. Mid-late C17. Timber-framed, weatherboarded (boarded over lath and plaster in living memory), peg-tiled roof. Rectangular plan. End on to the road and at right-angles to Nos 4 & 5 (qv). EXTERIOR: 2 storey with central shared stack in red brick, later end out-shuts with lean-to roofs to both cottages. S front elevation, each house has a ground-floor sash window with glazing bars, 4x4 panes and a first-floor window of 4 casement lights with glazing bars, each casement with 2x3 panes (these upper windows used to have sliding sashes and were altered when the weatherboarding was added). Both houses have a doorway with simple lean-to peg-tiled porch on wooden posts. No.2 has a door with 4 flush panels with beaded edges, No.3 has a boarded door also with beaded edges. The out-shut to No.2 is slated and has a C20 2-light casement window with glazing bars, 4x3 panes. Out-shut to No.3 under corrugated asbestos roof with red brick stack through roof, also 2-light casement window with glazing bars, 4x3 panes, casements C20 but window frame probably earlier with bead moulding. Rear, N elevation, weatherboarded as front with symmetrical windows and doors installed in C20. Each house has ground floor back door, (No.2 fully glazed, No.3 lower sunk panel and upper glazed panel). 2-light casement window and 2-light casement window with glazing bars, 4x3 panes in out-shut. No.3 now has a porch/conservatory, weatherboarded with flat roof and 2-light window with top opening casement. On first floor each house has one 2-light and one single light casement window. E and W gable ends plain weatherboarded. INTERIORs of both cottages show identical timber-framing of slim timbers with no jowls and straight tension braces on the outer corners and in the central partition in line with the stack, also straight similar wind braces in the roof pitches. The 2 houses were built as a pair and remain minimally altered. Nos 2 & 3, 4 & 5 (qv) Dark Lane form a group. (RCHM: Central and SW Essex, South Weald : Monument 9: 217).
Listing NGR: TQ5827691301
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 373426
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
An Inventory of Essex Central and South West, (1921), 217
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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