Little Thatches
LITTLE THATCHES, MALLOWS LANE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1317328
- Date first listed:
- 29-Aug-1984
- List Entry Name:
- Little Thatches
- Statutory Address:
- LITTLE THATCHES, MALLOWS LANE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1317328
- Date first listed:
- 29-Aug-1984
- List Entry Name:
- Little Thatches
- Statutory Address 1:
- LITTLE THATCHES, MALLOWS LANE
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:
- LITTLE THATCHES, MALLOWS LANE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Essex
- District:
- Braintree (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Toppesfield
- National Grid Reference:
- TL 72715 35519
Details
TL 73 NW TOPPESFIELD MALLOWS LANE, North Side 3/13 Little Thatches II
Cottage, c.1600, extended in C19 and C20. Timber framed, partly plastered, partly clad with red brick in Flemish bond, roof thatched. The original cottage comprises 2 bays aligned NW-SE, with an external chimney stack at the SE end. A bay was added to the SE in the C18, enclosing the stack, and in the C19 a bay was added at the NW end, with an internal chimney tack, and the building was divided into 2 cottages. C20 extension to NE of SE end. Aspect SW. Single storey with attics. 2 C20 glazed doors and one boarded door, 4 C20 casement windows. 2 eyebrow dormers, one with one C19 casement window, the other with one C19 and one C20 casement window, one below the other. Roof hipped at NW end. The interior of the original cottage has jowled posts, arched braces trenched inside heavy studs, mortices for early glazed windows with grooves for shutters, chamfered transverse beam with lamb's tongue stops, plain joists of horizontal section, clasped purlin roof.
Listing NGR: TL7271535519
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 114512
- 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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