Reaper's Croft
REAPER'S CROFT, OLD CHURCH LANE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1297207
- Date first listed:
- 20-Feb-1976
- List Entry Name:
- Reaper's Croft
- Statutory Address:
- REAPER'S CROFT, OLD CHURCH LANE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1297207
- Date first listed:
- 20-Feb-1976
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 09-Dec-1994
- List Entry Name:
- Reaper's Croft
- Statutory Address 1:
- REAPER'S CROFT, OLD CHURCH LANE
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:
- REAPER'S CROFT, OLD CHURCH LANE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Essex
- District:
- Brentwood (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Mountnessing
- National Grid Reference:
- TQ 63954 96562
Details
MOUNTNESSING
TQ69NW OLD CHURCH LANE 723-1/6/460 (North side) 20/02/76 Reaper's Croft (Formerly Listed as: BRENTWOOD OLD CHURCH LANE, Mountnessing The Thatched Cottage)
II
Cottage. C18 or early C19, extended in C19 and C20. Timber-framed, plastered, roof thatched. Rectangular plan facing S, with external stack at right end. C19 extension to left, with external stack at end, and C20 lean-to extension to rear of it, roofed with felt. C20 extension to right enclosing original stack, set back, with hipped roof of handmade red clay tiles. One storey. All windows are C20 casements with diamond leading; all except the right window have C20 external plain shutters. C20 door recessed in right extension. INTERIOR: unjowled posts. The rear wallplate has a simple splayed scarf near the left end, bolted. Primary straight bracing. The main posts are tenoned and pegged to the wallplates, the studs nailed, about 0.45m apart. C20 grate at right. C20 ceiling below original plastered ceiling. Side-purlin roof.
Listing NGR: TQ6395496562
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 373739
- 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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