Edgebrook and Rosamond
EDGEBROOK AND ROSAMOND, BRAINTREE ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1307092
- Date first listed:
- 19-Mar-1986
- List Entry Name:
- Edgebrook and Rosamond
- Statutory Address:
- EDGEBROOK AND ROSAMOND, BRAINTREE ROAD
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1307092
- Date first listed:
- 19-Mar-1986
- List Entry Name:
- Edgebrook and Rosamond
- Statutory Address 1:
- EDGEBROOK AND ROSAMOND, BRAINTREE 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:
- EDGEBROOK AND ROSAMOND, BRAINTREE ROAD
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Essex
- District:
- Braintree (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Wethersfield
- National Grid Reference:
- TL7169630486
Details
TL 73 SW
1/120
WETHERSFIELD
BRAINTREE ROAD
(west side)
Edgebrook and Rosamond
GV
II
House, extended and divided into 2 cottages. Circa 1600, extended in C18.
Timber framed, plastered, roofed with handmade red clay tiles. 4 bays facing N,
with internal stack against rear wall one bay from left end. Rear wing at right
end with gambrel roof and end stack, C18. Main house extended to left by one
bay in C17, and beyond in C18 to form a row of cottages. Edgebrook consists of
the right half of the main stack and all to the right of it. Rosamond consists
of the remainder of the original house, the C17 extension, and part of the C18
row of cottages (see no. 3, Brook Cottages, item 1/121, for the remainder). One
storey with attics. Edgebrook has 2 C20 casements on the ground floor, and 2
C18 3-light windows each with one wrought iron casement and some crown glass in
slated swept dormers; C20 door. Rosamond has 2 C20 casements, and one C19
2-light window with wrought iron casement, and 2 C20 casements in slated swept
dormers; C20 door. There are re-sited C17 and C18 wrought iron casements in C20
frames on the upper floor of the rear elevation and rear wing. Gambrel roof.
Shortened grouped diagonal shafts on main stack. The interiors have transverse
chamfered beams with lamb's-tongue-plus-bar stops, and large wood-burning
hearths with chamfered mantel beams and lamb's tongue stops. The C17 extension
(in Rosamond) has a chamfered axial beam with lamb's tongue stops. The walls
have been raised approx. 0.30 metre in the C17 and the roof rebuilt as a
gambrel. Edgebrook has a C17 3-plank oak door and 2 C18 3-plank pine doors.
Listing NGR: TL7169630486
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 115634
- 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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