16 AND 18, THE CROSS
16 AND 18, THE CROSS
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1266468
- Date first listed:
- 01-Jun-1973
- List Entry Name:
- 16 AND 18, THE CROSS
- Statutory Address:
- 16 AND 18, THE CROSS
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- Date:
- 2005-01-08
- Reference:
- IOE01/13623/29
- Rights:
- © Mr T. P. C. Bramer. Source: Historic England Archive
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1266468
- Date first listed:
- 01-Jun-1973
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 27-Jan-1982
- List Entry Name:
- 16 AND 18, THE CROSS
- Statutory Address 1:
- 16 AND 18, THE CROSS
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:
- 16 AND 18, THE CROSS
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Essex
- District:
- Colchester (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Wivenhoe
- National Grid Reference:
- TM 04016 22756
Details
TM 02 SW 18/46
5214
WIVENHOE,
THE CROSS
Nos. 16 and 18
(Formerly listed as Ropery House.
Formerly listed as No 16, THE AVENUE)
1.6.73
II
C18 house. Of red brick in Flemish-bond, of 2 storeys with attics, and a ridged,
gabled and pegtiled roof with 2 inset red brick chimney stacks - one at each
end. Front parapetted with a dentilled eaves-band and a first-floor band, a
range of 6 sash windows on the first-storey with small-panes, under rubbed straight
arches. Ground-storey with a door on the left which is modern but in a C19
case with a flat hood, and 4 pairs of sashes matching those on the first storey.
In the centre of the frontage another door, with pedimented case - mutules,
fluted pilasters and triglyphs.
Listing NGR: TM0401622756
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 421485
- 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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