Hill Cottage
HILL COTTAGE, WARREN LANE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1197322
- Date first listed:
- 17-Jun-1992
- List Entry Name:
- Hill Cottage
- Statutory Address:
- HILL COTTAGE, WARREN LANE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1197322
- Date first listed:
- 17-Jun-1992
- List Entry Name:
- Hill Cottage
- Statutory Address 1:
- HILL COTTAGE, WARREN 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:
- HILL COTTAGE, WARREN LANE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Essex
- District:
- Brentwood (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Kelvedon Hatch
- National Grid Reference:
- TQ 57961 97800
Details
KELVEDON HATCH
TQ59NE WARREN LANE 723-1/5/450 (North side) 17/06/92 Hill Cottage
II
House. c1400, early C17 and early C19. Timber-framed, weatherboarded with peg-tiled roof. 2-celled. One storey and attic 2 window range of C19 casements with glazing bars 4x3 panes. Door to E of centre with simple sunk panels, C20 simple pillared porch with lean-to sloping roof. Principal stack, red brick, to rear at E enclosed by a C19 brick lean-to also minor C19 red brick stack on W gable end. INTERIOR comprises the 2 bays of the open hall of a medieval house, each 12 feet (3.6m) long by 18 feet (5.4m) wide separated by a massive cambered tie-beam with lower fillet 10 inches (0.25m) deep with a crown post and 2 surviving curved braces above. The crown post has a base shaped to a semicircular form, flat face downwards and the shaft is square sectioned with square fillets to each face. The braces rise straight from these with no capital. The visible presence of a considerable length of the collar purlin and also a section of the original hall wall plate, with a very accurately cut step stopped chamfer, implies that the truss has not simply been reused from elsewhere but is still in situ even though the arched braces to the tie-beam have been removed - however the appropriate peg holes remain as evidence of their former presence. Soot remains under later layers of varnish. A horizontal joint in a stud at the W end of the N wall may be part of a cross entry framing for a spere. In the early C17, ceilings were inserted into the 2 bays and the roof was reconstructed to a clasped side purlin form and the central crown post truss filled in with timbers that appear to come from the original house, thus creating 2 rooms in the ground floor and 2 in the attic. Early C17 panelling with moulded muntins and rails (splayed on their upper surfaces) has been used to make 3 doors and a boarded area. Butterfly and H hinges remain. The lateral fireplace, set to the back of the E bay but within the house frame is probably C17 in origin but the core is obscured by later C19 and C20 work. The house is of particular interest as a fragment of a small hall house that has presumably lost its storeyed ends but without any exterior evidence of this transformation.
Listing NGR: TQ5796197800
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 373730
- 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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