Gatehouse Cottage
GATEHOUSE COTTAGE, BRIDGE END
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1335870
- Date first listed:
- 17-May-1985
- List Entry Name:
- Gatehouse Cottage
- Statutory Address:
- GATEHOUSE COTTAGE, BRIDGE END
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1335870
- Date first listed:
- 17-May-1985
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 17-Aug-1985
- List Entry Name:
- Gatehouse Cottage
- Statutory Address 1:
- GATEHOUSE COTTAGE, BRIDGE 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:
- GATEHOUSE COTTAGE, BRIDGE END
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Essex
- District:
- Braintree (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Great Bardfield
- National Grid Reference:
- TL 67586 31075
Details
TL 63 SE GREAT BARDFIELD BRIDGE END (east side)
3/134 Gatehouse Cottage
GV II
House. C16, extended in C20. Timber framed, plastered, roofed with handmade red clay tiles. 4 bays facing W, with axial stack in second bay from right end. External stack at left end, incorporated in adjacent building. Front elevation has a slight obtuse angle, following the line of the street. Lean-to stair tower behind main stack, C17, not now containing a stair. C18 single-storey lean-to extension behind right end, C20 2-storey extension behind left end. 2 storeys. Ground floor, 2 C20 casements, 2 C19 horizontally sliding sashes of 8 and 12 lights respectively. First floor, one C19 and 2 C20 casements and one small fixed light. C20 door. Large stack, reduced 5 courses above ridge. The interior has jowled posts, curved tension braces trenched inside heavy studding, chamfered axial beams with step stops, plain joists of horizontal section, 2 large wood-burning hearths. RCHM 40.
Listing NGR: TL6758631075
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 115273
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Other
An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in Essex North West, (1916)
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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