Pear Tree Cottage
PEAR TREE COTTAGE, DODDINGHURST ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1197273
- Date first listed:
- 20-Feb-1976
- List Entry Name:
- Pear Tree Cottage
- Statutory Address:
- PEAR TREE COTTAGE, DODDINGHURST ROAD
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1197273
- Date first listed:
- 20-Feb-1976
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 09-Dec-1994
- List Entry Name:
- Pear Tree Cottage
- Statutory Address 1:
- PEAR TREE COTTAGE, DODDINGHURST ROAD
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:
- PEAR TREE COTTAGE, DODDINGHURST ROAD
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Essex
- District:
- Brentwood (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Doddinghurst
- National Grid Reference:
- TQ 59359 98424
Details
DODDINGHURST
TQ59NE DODDINGHURST ROAD 723-1/5/320 (East side) 20/02/76 Pear Tree Cottage (Formerly Listed as: BRENTWOOD DODDINGHURST ROAD, Doddinghurst Pear Tree Cottage)
II
House. C16, C17 and C20. Timber-framed and rough cast rendered, peg-tiled roof. 3 celled. One and a half storey. 3 window range of C20 wooden casements. Off centre C19 front door, framed and flush panels and simple C20 gabled porch in brick and timber. Double stack in line with door. 2 gabled dormers with C19 casement windows. Break apparent in front wall towards N end suggesting rebuilding or addition of N section. INTERIOR: much framing exposed but considerably altered. Medieval hall house though evident, hall window with 6 mullions and sill joints in rear wall of central 2-bayed section with sooting on tie-beam above. High end cross wall in position with rear arched braces and single doorway with carpenters assembly marks. N (high) end, storeyed bay rebuilt in C17 and S end service bay refloored and walls considerably rebuilt C17 with primary bracing, principal binding joist with lamb's tongue stops to chamfers. Axial common joists having diminished haunched tenons with small pendant soffits and joist clamp on S end wall. C17 division of the hall and associated stack backing on to site of cross passage. Common joists deep section with diminished haunched tenons and pendant soffits sitting on clamps on side walls, elm bridging joist with lamb's tongue chamfer stops taken into stack and simply cradled into high end cross wall by a wooden supporting strap. To provide free movement on the new upper floor all the internal tie-beams have been cut through and the roof rebuilt using clasped side purlins and some framing constructed to support cut beams. Dormer windows probably constructed then. Later in C17 second chimney-stack built on site of cross passage to heat service room and convert house to lobby entrance form. C19 refurbishment of dormer casements and front door. Renovation of the house, in progress, has revealed a child's leather shoe, a boy's cap and a girl's lace work hat with dried flowers pushed into the angle between the floor and front wall of the low end storeyed bay. Rear of house, two C20 brick cross-wings, two C20 French windows, one wooden casement window 4x3 panes and on first floor one wooden casement with glazing bars, 4x4 panes in each gable. Rear roof C20 machine-made tiles and N end wall weatherboarded.
Listing NGR: TQ5935998424
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 373607
- 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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