Rose Briar Cottage
ROSE BRIAR COTTAGE, 8, WEST STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1328593
- Date first listed:
- 05-Feb-1987
- List Entry Name:
- Rose Briar Cottage
- Statutory Address:
- ROSE BRIAR COTTAGE, 8, WEST STREET
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1328593
- Date first listed:
- 05-Feb-1987
- List Entry Name:
- Rose Briar Cottage
- Statutory Address 1:
- ROSE BRIAR COTTAGE, 8, WEST 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:
- ROSE BRIAR COTTAGE, 8, WEST STREET
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Essex
- District:
- Maldon (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Tollesbury
- National Grid Reference:
- TL 95397 10459
Details
TOLLESBURY WEST STREET TL 9410-9510 (north side) 8/36 No. 8 (Rose Briar Cottage) GV II
House. C15, extended in C20. Timber framed, roughcast rendered, roofed with red clay pantiles. Comprises the 2-bay service crosswing of a medieval hall house which formerly extended to the E, the remainder reported to have been destroyed by fire in the 1920s, with inserted internal stack against W wall. C20 extension to N. 2 storeys. S elevation (to West Street), one C20 sash on each storey, with diamond leading. C20 door. Roof re-aligned with ridge E-W. Jowled posts, heavy studding, some wattle and daub infill. E-W beam with mortices and wattle groove for former partition between 2 service rooms, joists plastered to the soffits, but probably concealing an underbuilt jetty to the street. Unglazed window with 2 diamond mullions and shutter groove in W wall, similar window with empty mortices in N wall. Chamfered arched braces to cambered tiebeam. Crownpost roof with axial bracing, the original rear bay with gablet hip complete within the re-aligned roof, the formerly gabled front bay rebuilt. C17/C18 wood-burning hearth. Possibly RCHM 15.
Listing NGR: TL9539710459
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 353157
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
An Inventory of Essex North East, (1922)
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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