Chapel Cottage Swans Cottage
CHAPEL COTTAGE, 46, WALDEN ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1297710
- Date first listed:
- 01-Nov-1972
- List Entry Name:
- Chapel Cottage Swans Cottage
- Statutory Address:
- CHAPEL COTTAGE, 46, WALDEN ROAD
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1297710
- Date first listed:
- 01-Nov-1972
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 31-Oct-1994
- List Entry Name:
- Chapel Cottage Swans Cottage
- Statutory Address 1:
- CHAPEL COTTAGE, 46, WALDEN ROAD
- Statutory Address 2:
- SWANS COTTAGE, 48, WALDEN 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:
- CHAPEL COTTAGE, 46, WALDEN ROAD
- Statutory Address:
- SWANS COTTAGE, 48, WALDEN ROAD
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Essex
- District:
- Uttlesford (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Sewards End
- National Grid Reference:
- TL 57078 38280
Details
SAFFRON WALDEN
TL53NE WALDEN ROAD, Sewards End 669-1/4/396 (East side) 01/11/72 Nos.46 AND 48 Chapel Cottage (46) and Swans Cottage (48) (Formerly Listed as: WALDEN ROAD, Sewards End Nos.46 AND 48)
II
Pair of semi-detached cottages. Late C18 or early C19. Timber-framed and rendered with thatched gabled roof. One storey with attics and central ridge stack and each cottage has C20 gambrel plain tiled roofed extensions on its flank. No.46 has one eye-brow dormer window with C19 2-light casement with single horizontal glazing bar. Ground floor has a similar window and catslide thatched roofed porch. No.46 has 2 eyebrow dormers each with a C20 2-light casement. Ground floor has a similar window and larger catslide porch. Pair of similar cottages with inglenooks and oven door opening. Chamfered spine beams and partitions with curved bracing interrupting studs (exposed with infill removed in No.48). Short principal rafters linked by collars with superimposed purlins and short jack rafters above.
Listing NGR: TL5707838280
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 370743
- 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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