Hop Cottage
HOP COTTAGE, 5 AND 7, RECTORY LANE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1297248
- Date first listed:
- 21-Oct-1958
- List Entry Name:
- Hop Cottage
- Statutory Address:
- HOP COTTAGE, 5 AND 7, RECTORY LANE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1297248
- Date first listed:
- 21-Oct-1958
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 09-Dec-1994
- List Entry Name:
- Hop Cottage
- Statutory Address 1:
- HOP COTTAGE, 5 AND 7, RECTORY 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:
- HOP COTTAGE, 5 AND 7, RECTORY LANE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Essex
- District:
- Brentwood (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Herongate and Ingrave
- National Grid Reference:
- TQ 63094 91052
Details
BRENTWOOD
TQ6391 RECTORY LANE, Herongate 723-1/13/190 (East side) 21/10/58 Nos.5 AND 7 Hop Cottage (Formerly Listed as: RECTORY LANE, Herongate Nos.5 AND 7)
GV II
Formerly known as: Nos.5 AND 7 RECTORY LANE East Horndon. Pair of attached cottages, now one house. C17/18, extended and altered in C20. Timber-framed, plastered and weatherboarded, roofed with straw thatch. Main range facing NW with external stack at right end and single-storey lean-to extension beyond, roofed with handmade red clay pantiles. Extension to left in similar style, and to left rear, c1980, roofed with C20 red clay pantiles. One storey with attics. Only one C20 casement to front, and 2 old plain boarded and ledged doors, possibly original. Weatherboarded dado. All other windows are C20 casements, 2 large gabled dormers to rear, and a similar dormer in the left extension. 2 plain boarded and ledged doors to rear, of which one is in the lean-to extension at right. INTERIOR: inside the front door of No.5, at right, is an unusual wooden screen, quadrant in plan, of boards nailed to curved ribs, a rare feature meriting special care. Rebated elm floorboards. Deeds from 1858 in the possession of the owners. Shown in Chapman and Andre's map of 1777. The plain front elevation makes an important contribution to the quality of this building, meriting careful conservation.
Listing NGR: TQ6309491052
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 373528
- 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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