BOYLES COURT COTTAGES

BOYLES COURT COTTAGES, 6 AND 7, DARK LANE

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1197205
Date first listed:: 20-Feb-1976
List Entry Name:: BOYLES COURT COTTAGES
Statutory Address:: BOYLES COURT COTTAGES, 6 AND 7, DARK LANE

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1197205
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, 6 AND 7, DARK 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:: BOYLES COURT COTTAGES, 6 AND 7, 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 58252 91178

Details

BRENTWOOD

TQ59SE DARK LANE, Great Warley 723-1/8/137 (West side) 20/02/76 Nos.6 AND 7 Boyles Court Cottages (Formerly Listed as: DARK LANE, Great Warley Nos.6 AND 7)

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Pair of cottages. No.6 early C17, No.7 late C17. Timber-framed and plastered, peg-tiled roof. Rectangular plans; No.6 with flat roofed C20 rear addition and lean-to in C20 brick; No.7 with deep C20 rear lean-to. EXTERIOR No.6: one storey and attic, N gabled end has large external early C17 stack with re-built pair of diagonally set shafts. Front, E elevation, 2 window range with C20 boarded central front door, simple lean-to porch on posts with peg-tiled roof, windows have C18/19 frames, 2-light casements with glazing bars renewed, each light 2x3 panes. Dormers above, peg tiled with windows similar to below. Rear, C20 additions have 3 casement windows and simple C20 door with upper glazed panel, to S C18/19 stack emerges through catslide roof from rear of old house. N gable end, C20 casement attic window with glazing bars 2x2 panes to W of stack. No.7: smaller than No.6, roof lower, one storey and attic, C18/19 stack internal at S end. Front elevation, 2 window range with central boarded front door, door frame with C19 bead moulding, lean-to porch on posts, peg-tiled roof. Windows have C19 frames with C20 2-light casements with glazing bars, each light 2x3 panes. Dormers above, peg-tiled with similar windows to ground floor. Rear, W elevation, C20 addition rendered and colourwashed with slate roof, three C20 casement windows with glazing bars, one 4x4 panes, two 4x3 panes. S end elevation, C20 simple door with rectangular fanlight, upper glazing with glazing bars, 2x3 panes, one C20 ground floor 3-light casement window, one C20 attic casement window with glazing bars, 2x2 panes. INTERIOR: No.6: early C17 framing of 2 bays, unjowled posts, floor joists - deep sectioned, diminished haunched tenons with pendant soffits, bridging joist integrated into stack. Ground-floor fireplace reduced in width, some English bond in brickwork. House and stack are of one build. No.7: late C17 framing, primary bracing and waney edge timber.

Listing NGR: TQ5825291178

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Legacy System number:: 373428
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.