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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Official list entry

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

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.

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This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

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.

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Corrections and minor amendments

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

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Legacy System number:: 118227
Legacy System:: LBS

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This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.