Quy's Cottage
QUY'S COTTAGE, GAINESFORD END
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1317375
- Date first listed:
- 29-Aug-1984
- List Entry Name:
- Quy's Cottage
- Statutory Address:
- QUY'S COTTAGE, GAINESFORD END
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1317375
- Date first listed:
- 29-Aug-1984
- List Entry Name:
- Quy's Cottage
- Statutory Address 1:
- QUY'S COTTAGE, GAINESFORD END
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:
- QUY'S COTTAGE, GAINESFORD END
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 72613 35606
Details
TL 73 NW TOPPESFIELD GAINSFORD END 3/12 Quy's Cottage GV II
Small house, late C16/early C17, altered in C19 and C20. Timber framed, weatherboarded and plastered, roof thatched. 4 bays aligned N-S, with axial chimney stack one bay from S end and external chimney stack on N end. Aspect E. C20 single-storey flat-roofed extension to SW, linking cottage with small ancillary building. Single-storey with attics. Plain boarded door, 2 late C18 double-hung sash windows, 2 C20 casement windows. One eyebrow dormer and one gabled dormer, each with an C18 window of one fixed light and one wrought iron casement. The interior has heavy studding, arched braces from original corner posts, axial beams, exposed plain joists of horizontal section. Central ground- floor partition stripped to the studding.
Listing NGR: TL7261335606
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 114499
- 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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