The Ring Cottage
THE RING COTTAGE, AUDLEY END PARK
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1239512
- Date first listed:
- 10-Dec-1987
- List Entry Name:
- The Ring Cottage
- Statutory Address:
- THE RING COTTAGE, AUDLEY END PARK
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1239512
- Date first listed:
- 10-Dec-1987
- List Entry Name:
- The Ring Cottage
- Statutory Address 1:
- THE RING COTTAGE, AUDLEY END PARK
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:
- THE RING COTTAGE, AUDLEY END PARK
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Essex
- District:
- Uttlesford (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Littlebury
- National Grid Reference:
- TL 51498 38240
Details
TL 53 NW
11/1305
LITTLEBURY
AUDLEY END PARK(West)The Ring Cottage
GI
Cottage ornee,former menagerie.1770s possibly by Hobcraft,with C19 and 1960s alterations.Timber-framed new rendered,three-cell plan.Originally two ground storey rooms with open bird room to south,made habitable and roofed in1960s.Hipped,plain tile roof with ridge stack and C20 front wall stack.One and a half storeys.East front:five bays.Central doorway with gabled porch with C19 Gothic bargeboards and finial,four-centred arch,and branch pattern decoration,probably originally late C18.To left, two C20 casements.To right,two similar windows.Above a gabled roof-dormer with barge-boards,finial,branch pattern decoration,and two-light casement.Garden front:three bays with large gabled central loggia with C19 Gothic bargeboards and finial,and trio of late C18 Gothic pointed arches with slender quatrefoil shafts with capitals and bases.Above in the gable,a single glazing bar sash with square frame.Inside the loggia,a trio of pointed arch sashes with Gothic glazing.To either side of the loggia,single C20 tripartite windows with glazing bars.North and south elevations have similar ground storey windows and similar roof dormers to the east front.Interior:late C18 chimneypiece and doorcase in central room.Contemporary straight staircase.Hobcraft was the designer of the 1780s Gothic Chapel in Audley End House.
Listing NGR: TL5149838240
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 417417
- 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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