The Plough Inn
THE PLOUGH INN, THE STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1317383
- Date first listed:
- 16-May-1984
- List Entry Name:
- The Plough Inn
- Statutory Address:
- THE PLOUGH INN, THE STREET
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- Reference:
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1317383
- Date first listed:
- 16-May-1984
- List Entry Name:
- The Plough Inn
- Statutory Address 1:
- THE PLOUGH INN, THE 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:
- THE PLOUGH INN, THE STREET
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Essex
- District:
- Braintree (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Birdbrook
- National Grid Reference:
- TL 70665 41084
Details
TL 74 SW BIRDBROOK THE STREET WEST SIDE 3/22 The Plough Inn
GV II
Cottage, C18, extended in C19 and C20, now a public house. Part timber framed and plastered, part clay lump, part painted brick in Flemish bond. Roofed partly with thatch, partly with slate. 3 bays aligned approx. N-S, with axial chimney stack at N end of middle bay, external chimney stack at S end. Aspect east. Early C19 rear extension of clay lump, colour-washed, with thatched roof. Late C19 north extension of brick, the NW corner rounded off, with hipped slate roof. C20 flat-roofed single-storey extension to rear of it. Main range single-storey with attics, 2 storeys in N extension. Ground floor has 2 half- glazed doors, one 4-panel door, one C19 casement window, one C20 splayed bay, one splayed bay of C18 leaded windows (4 fixed lights, one wrought iron casement) and crenellated parapet on one short section. First floor has 2 C18 leaded windows each of 2 fixed lights and one wrought iron casement in dormers with swept slate roofs. In N extension, one double-hung sash window of 16 lights on each floor. 2 diagonal shafts on main stack. Interior has axial beam plain-chamfered without stops. Large wood-burning hearth facing S has been reduced for coal fire. Bread oven to E of it, top broken, introduced iron door with manufacturer's name. A simple building whose piecemeal development retains its vernacular character.
Listing NGR: TL7066541084
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 114093
- 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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