Coachman's Cottage Rookwoods Cottage
COACHMAN'S COTTAGE, YELDHAM ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1276540
- Date first listed:
- 15-Oct-1984
- List Entry Name:
- Coachman's Cottage Rookwoods Cottage
- Statutory Address:
- COACHMAN'S COTTAGE, YELDHAM ROAD
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- Date:
- 2001-08-28
- Reference:
- IOE01/05211/16
- Rights:
- © Mr Frank Swift. Source: Historic England Archive
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1276540
- Date first listed:
- 15-Oct-1984
- List Entry Name:
- Coachman's Cottage Rookwoods Cottage
- Statutory Address 1:
- COACHMAN'S COTTAGE, YELDHAM ROAD
- Statutory Address 2:
- ROOKWOODS COTTAGE, 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:
- COACHMAN'S COTTAGE, YELDHAM ROAD
- Statutory Address:
- ROOKWOODS COTTAGE, 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:
- TL 77687 35029
Details
TL 73 NE SIBLE HEDINGHAM YELDHAM ROAD 2/331 Rookwoods Cottage (Sometimes known as Coachman's Cottage)
GV II
Lodge Cottage. Circa 1888. Red brick with red plain tiled roof and pierced ridge tiles. Moulded brick coping to parapet verges. Rear red brick chimney stack. 2 storeys. 3 window range to first floor with central plain casement. 2 range to ground floor of vertically sliding sashes, the top sash with glazing bars. This Queen Anne style building is notable for the moulded brickwork which is similar to another Lodge Cottage approx. 30 metres south and listed q.v. 2/330. Dentilled and moulded eaves cornice with hexaglyph and roundel band under. Three string courses. All follow through return walls. First floor windows right and left with gauged brick arches and floral motif to keystone. Ornate forward ground floor window surrounds continue to first floor cills with fleuron panels below ground floor cills and swags below first floor cills. Chamfered mouldings to windows. Central oval date plaque with intertwined 1888 between fluted pilasters, frieze with floral keystone and enrichments to pediment. Return walls with eaves height pilaster strips to right and left of central ground floor windows. Similar ornate framing to windows but with small fleuron panels over, horizontal swag and roundel panels and vertical flower vase panels. Gables with moulded surrounds and canopies to fleuron panels. Included as a particularly good example of moulded brickwork in Queen Anne style.
Listing NGR: TL7768735029
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 409108
- 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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