Palmers Cottage South Cottage
PALMERS COTTAGE, CAGE END
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1299302
- Date first listed:
- 20-Feb-1967
- List Entry Name:
- Palmers Cottage South Cottage
- Statutory Address:
- PALMERS COTTAGE, CAGE END
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1299302
- Date first listed:
- 20-Feb-1967
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 08-Aug-1985
- List Entry Name:
- Palmers Cottage South Cottage
- Statutory Address 1:
- PALMERS COTTAGE, CAGE END
- Statutory Address 2:
- SOUTH COTTAGE, CAGE END
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:
- PALMERS COTTAGE, CAGE END
- Statutory Address:
- SOUTH COTTAGE, CAGE END
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Essex
- District:
- Uttlesford (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Hatfield Broad Oak
- National Grid Reference:
- TL 54589 16463
Details
TL 5416/5516 HATFIELD BROAD OAK CAGE END (east side)
6/48 Palmers Cottage/South Cottage 20/02/67 (Both were formerly listed as Palmers) GV II
Pair of houses, former single house. C16 or earlier. Timber framed and plastered with pegtile roofs. Of complex plan form with 2 storey crosswing at west with hipped roof slope and lean-to against its western flank with gabled dormer. 2 storey 'hall' block to east with hipped gablet roof with ridge line stack and larger 2 storey block at rear with white weatherboarded C20 flat roofed extension. Small stack through ridge line of crosswing. Front has C19 casements with cross pattern glazing bars and fragments of old pargetting. central late C18 doorcase, with pilasters and frieze of 3 triglyphs and panels and flat hood, (as originally removed from Old Barrington Hall.) Both crosswing and range to east were formerly jettied and one bracket survives within each part. The hall block has arch braces to tie beams with traces of late C16 wall paintings. Large repaired inglenook fireplace and integral C16 floors throughout. Rear range was C17/C18 single storey block later raised.
Listing NGR: TL5458916463
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 353602
- 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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