Mount Cottage Yorklette Cottage
MOUNT COTTAGE, HALL ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1225631
- Date first listed:
- 09-Sept-1993
- List Entry Name:
- Mount Cottage Yorklette Cottage
- Statutory Address:
- MOUNT COTTAGE, HALL ROAD
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- Date:
- 2001-06-28
- Reference:
- IOE01/04811/06
- Rights:
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1225631
- Date first listed:
- 09-Sept-1993
- List Entry Name:
- Mount Cottage Yorklette Cottage
- Statutory Address 1:
- MOUNT COTTAGE, HALL ROAD
- Statutory Address 2:
- YORKLETTE COTTAGE, HALL 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:
- MOUNT COTTAGE, HALL ROAD
- Statutory Address:
- YORKLETTE COTTAGE, HALL ROAD
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Essex
- District:
- Colchester (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Mount Bures
- National Grid Reference:
- TL 90635 32634
Details
The following building shall be added to the list:-
MOUNT BURES HALL ROAD TL 93 SW (east side) Mount Cottage and 2/10003 Yorklette Cottage II GV House, late medieval. Timber framed and rendered with plain tile roofs. Single storey with attic; 2 storey cross wing to Yorklette Cottage. Built as hall house, then divided into two cottages in the C18. Former hall and upper end contained in Yorklette Cottage to the north; the crosswing of two bays, rear roof of cross wing gableted; inserted floor in hall with stop chamfered C16 floor joists, Fomer parlour/solar with wall of exposed framing and tension bracing to former hall. Cross wing has arch-braced tie beam. Stair opening in floor at NE corner and bridging joists resting on substantial shaped corbel in south wall. Inglenook stack on party wall projecting through front slope of roof. Former low end in Mount Cottage, which has break in the roof line. Broad gabled dormers to each may date to the C17. Ridge stack to Mount Cottage. External stack to left return. Each cottage with a catslide roof rear dormer. Evidence of C17 work in parlour of Mount Cottage, chamfered beam with ogee stop.
Listing NGR: TL9063532634
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 422001
- 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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