Esgors
ESGORS, HIGH ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1308858
- Date first listed:
- 26-Apr-1984
- List Entry Name:
- Esgors
- Statutory Address:
- ESGORS, HIGH ROAD
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- Reference:
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1308858
- Date first listed:
- 26-Apr-1984
- List Entry Name:
- Esgors
- Statutory Address 1:
- ESGORS, HIGH 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:
- ESGORS, HIGH ROAD
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 46969 05369
Details
TL 40 NE NORTH WEALD BASSETT HIGH ROAD 4/32 Esgors II
House, mid-cl8, altered in C19. Red brickwork, Flemish bond, stone coping on parapet, gables and pediment, slated roof. 2 st:oreys and half-cellar and attics. Open pediment doorcase with 2 wooden Doric columns on stone plinths at head of flight of 7 stone steps, 4-panel door of which the upper panels are round-headed lights, fanlight over. On ground floor 2 double-hung sash windows, of which the upper sash is divided by glazing bars into 6 lights, the lower sash undivided, with flat arches of gauged brickwork. On first floor, 3 similar windows. String course at level of base of pediment. Inside pediment dentils and roundel bearing the date 1898, representing the latest stage of exterior alteration. The front elevation comprises a symmetrical composition. 3 large red brick chimneys. 'Esgors, formerly Isgoe, at Thornwood, is a square red brick house dating from about 1750. It formerly had a frontage on the common but is now set back about 100 yards from the main road'. (VCH, vol. IV, p.285).
Listing NGR: TL4696905369
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 118214
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Doubleday, AH, Page, W, The Victoria History of the County of Essex, (1956), 285
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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