Numbers 2 and 3, Blossom Cottage and the Delves
BLOSSOM COTTAGE, 2, BRIDGE STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1234332
- Date first listed:
- 27-Jul-1992
- List Entry Name:
- Numbers 2 and 3, Blossom Cottage and the Delves
- Statutory Address:
- BLOSSOM COTTAGE, 2, BRIDGE STREET
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- Reference:
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1234332
- Date first listed:
- 27-Jul-1992
- List Entry Name:
- Numbers 2 and 3, Blossom Cottage and the Delves
- Statutory Address 1:
- BLOSSOM COTTAGE, 2, BRIDGE STREET
- Statutory Address 2:
- THE DELVES, 3, BRIDGE STREET
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:
- BLOSSOM COTTAGE, 2, BRIDGE STREET
- Statutory Address:
- THE DELVES, 3, BRIDGE STREET
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Essex
- District:
- Braintree (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Great Yeldham
- National Grid Reference:
- TL 76077 38422
Details
The following building shall be added to the list:-
TL 7638
7/10000
GREAT YELDHAM
BRIDGE STREET
Nos 2 and 3, Blossom Cottage and The Delves
GV
II
House, now subdivided into 2 dwellings. C16 with C18 alterations
and C19 additions. Timber framed, rendered, red clay-tile roof,
red brick stacks. Slate-roofed lean-to extensions. 2 storeys, 4
bays with central stack bay, later end stacks. Lobby entry, now
blocked. Continuous jetty to street front, now underbuilt. Lean-
to outshut to centre of rear. C19 lean-to extensions to rear and
end (3) to left street elevation has 2 C18 6-panel doors under
rustic porches flanking original entry. C18 3-light timber
casements (3) to left. C20 timber casements (2) to right. Frame,
largely exposed inside, has jowled storey posts, posts with
moulded capitals, arched braces, trenched downbraces. 1st floor
jetty posts jowled with jowled feet. Crown-post roof with
longitudinal arched braces. Chamfered bridging joists with
stepped stops. Joists with soffit tenons and diminished haunches.
Frame (2) to right is incomplete and some timbers are C20
replacements. Interior (2) to right has panelled fireback to
central stack. C18 corner cupboard with shaped shelves and H
hinges in corner of main ground floor room. Interior (3) to left
has herringbone brick flooring, C18 doors and cupboards. Remains
of 4 first-floor windows with mortices for diamond mullions.
Listing NGR: TL7607738422
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 352152
- 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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