Priory Cottage
PRIORY COTTAGE, 35, UPPER HOLT STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1306077
- Date first listed:
- 21-Jun-1962
- List Entry Name:
- Priory Cottage
- Statutory Address:
- PRIORY COTTAGE, 35, UPPER HOLT STREET
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- Date:
- 2001-08-01
- Reference:
- IOE01/04165/26
- Rights:
- © David Guthrie. Source: Historic England Archive
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1306077
- Date first listed:
- 21-Jun-1962
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 10-Apr-1987
- List Entry Name:
- Priory Cottage
- Statutory Address 1:
- PRIORY COTTAGE, 35, UPPER HOLT STREET
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:
- PRIORY COTTAGE, 35, UPPER HOLT STREET
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Essex
- District:
- Braintree (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Earls Colne
- National Grid Reference:
- TL 86427 28759
Details
TL 8628-8728 EARLS COLNE UPPER HOLT STREET
9/116 No. 35 Priory Cottage 21.6.62 (Formerly listed under High Street)
GV II
House. Circa 1670, altered and extended in C18 and C19. Flint and red brick rubble with dressings of red brick, roofed with handmade red plain tiles. Early C19 alterations in gault brick. 3-bay and chimney-bay plan facing NE, towards entrance to Colne Priory. Early C19 L-shaped extension to SW, projecting forwards to Upper Holt Street at end. 2 storeys. NE front has 4-window range of C18 sashes with glazing bars and segmental heads; 3 windows are now blocked and painted to represent sashes; 2 C20 casements. Original entrance has C18 double doors. Roof hipped. Early C19 extension, gabled to street, has one original sash with thin glazing bars and gauged brick arch in right return. Linking range has colonnade of 4 timber posts with central glazed double doors and blocked window opening above. C17 stop-chamfered beams and joists. C17 side-purlin roof. C17, C18 and C19 internal doors (Wherein I Dwell, Earls Colne WEA, 1983, 67-8).
Listing NGR: TL8642728759
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 115964
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Wherein I Dwell, (1983), 67-8
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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