Essex Rose Cafe

ESSEX ROSE CAFE, HIGH STREET

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Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II*
List Entry Number:
1239326
Date first listed:
23-Jun-1952
List Entry Name:
Essex Rose Cafe
Statutory Address:
ESSEX ROSE CAFE, HIGH STREET
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Official list entry

Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II*
List Entry Number:
1239326
Date first listed:
23-Jun-1952
Date of most recent amendment:
27-Jan-1982
List Entry Name:
Essex Rose Cafe
Statutory Address 1:
ESSEX ROSE CAFE, HIGH 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.

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Corrections and minor amendments

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.

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Corrections and minor amendments

Location

Statutory Address:
ESSEX ROSE CAFE, HIGH STREET

The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.

County:
Essex
District:
Colchester (District Authority)
Parish:
Dedham
National Grid Reference:
TM0575533186

Details

DEDHAM HIGH STREET
1.
5214
(north side)
Essex Rose Cafe
(formerly listed as
Corner Cottage Cafe
TM 0533 26/34 and 36 23.6.52 Co-operative Stores
II*
GV
2.
C15/16 timber framed and plastered. Wings extend north and west 2 storeys and
attics roofs ridged, gabled, pegtiled. Front of north wing obscured by circa
1900 shopfront. Ground storey north, re-modelled for the cafe. The upper storey
is jettied along Mill Lane and has C18 fenestration. Inside; a C17 plaster ceiling
of 2 bays on the first floor, having embossed borders of acorns with a trail
of oak leaves, and units derived from Tudor roses, moulded ceiling joists.
Co-operative has south front with shop on ground storey surmounted by parapetted
red brick wall with ridged and gabled pegtiled roof, and a range of 4 small-paned
sash windows in exposed boxes under straight arches. Inside: a timber frame
with first floor joists roll-moulded.


Listing NGR: TM0575533186

Legacy

The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.

Legacy System number:
417133
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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