Rookwoods Lodge
ROOKWOODS LODGE, YELDHAM ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1276441
- Date first listed:
- 15-Oct-1984
- List Entry Name:
- Rookwoods Lodge
- Statutory Address:
- ROOKWOODS LODGE, YELDHAM ROAD
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- Date:
- 2001-08-28
- Reference:
- IOE01/05211/17
- Rights:
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1276441
- Date first listed:
- 15-Oct-1984
- List Entry Name:
- Rookwoods Lodge
- Statutory Address 1:
- ROOKWOODS LODGE, YELDHAM 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:
- ROOKWOODS LODGE, YELDHAM ROAD
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Essex
- District:
- Braintree (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Sible Hedingham
- National Grid Reference:
- TL7769234994
Details
TL 7634-7734 SIBLE HEDINGHAM YELDHAM ROAD
9/330 Rookwoods Lodge
GV II
Lodge cottage. Circa 1887. Red brick. Hipped red plain tiled roof with pierced
ridge tiles and acroteria. Moulded brick coping to central forward gable surmounted
by a ball finial. Large central rectangular red brick chimney stack with 5 pilaster
strips and fleur de lis panels over. Moulded eaves cornice with roundel and
hexaglyph band under. Moulded string course at cill level. All mouldings follow
through returns. Single storey. The gable with a two light vertically sliding sash
window, glazing bars to upper sashes, in heavily moulded brick surround. Frieze with
moulded panels, moulded segmental head with swag panel over. Angle porch to left
of gable, with balusters to wall supporting two moulded shafts with moulded flat
canopy over. Half glazed panelled door. To right of gable is an ornate moulded
panel with intertwined date 1887 and a smaller panel over. Notable for its ornate
moulded brickwork which is similar to Rookwoods Cottage approx. 30 metres north.
q.v. 2/331. Included as a particularly good example of moulded brickwork in Queen
Anne style.
Listing NGR: TL7769234994
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 409107
- 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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