Magpie Cottage
MAGPIE COTTAGE, MILL STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1308819
- Date first listed:
- 26-Apr-1984
- List Entry Name:
- Magpie Cottage
- Statutory Address:
- MAGPIE COTTAGE, MILL STREET
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1308819
- Date first listed:
- 26-Apr-1984
- List Entry Name:
- Magpie Cottage
- Statutory Address 1:
- MAGPIE COTTAGE, MILL 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:
- MAGPIE COTTAGE, MILL STREET
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Essex
- District:
- Epping Forest (District Authority)
- Parish:
- North Weald Bassett
- National Grid Reference:
- TL 48457 08239
Details
TL 40 NE NORTH WEALD BASSETT MILL STREET, 4/13 Magpie Cottage
II
Cottage, early C17, extended in C20. Timber framed, plastered, roof thatched. Aligned approx. NW-SE, aspect NE, originally of 2 bays, extended to NW by one bay in C17. Axial chimney stack at inner end of NW bay, C19. C20 extension to rear with near-flat roof of corrugated asbestos. 2 lean-to extensions to NW, C20, roofed with sheet metal and corrugated asbestos. Small lean-to extension at E corner, C20, roofed with interlocking concrete tiles. Single storey with attics. Plain boarded door in thatched gabled porch, C20. 2 casement windows and one fixed light, C20, and C20 casement window in gabled dormer. Framing exposed internally. Arched braces to cambered central cross beam of original cottage, below heads of posts, collar above. Original studded partition below cross beam, partly present, no partition above. Jowled corner posts. Arched braces in walls, rising from posts to wallplates and SE tiebeam, inside studs, not trenched. Primary straight bracing in SE bay, which has wallplates end- joined to those of the original cottage. Original lodged longitudinal joists of vertical section, unchamfered, in middle bay. No floor in SE bay.
Listing NGR: TL4845708239
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 118227
- 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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