Beam Cottage Cage Cottage
BEAM COTTAGE, BRIDGE STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1335889
- Date first listed:
- 21-Dec-1967
- List Entry Name:
- Beam Cottage Cage Cottage
- Statutory Address:
- BEAM COTTAGE, BRIDGE STREET
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1335889
- Date first listed:
- 21-Dec-1967
- List Entry Name:
- Beam Cottage Cage Cottage
- Statutory Address 1:
- BEAM COTTAGE, BRIDGE STREET
- Statutory Address 2:
- CAGE COTTAGE, BRIDGE STREET
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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:
- BEAM COTTAGE, BRIDGE STREET
- Statutory Address:
- CAGE COTTAGE, BRIDGE STREET
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 67588 30665
Details
TL 6730 GREAT BARDFIELD BRIDGE STREET (west side)
8/141 Beam Cottage and Cage 21.12.67 Cottage
GV II
House, divided into 2 cottages. Early C15, altered in C17 and C19. Timber framed, plastered, roof thatched. Main range of 4 bays facing E, with 2-bay crosswing at left end. Axial stack, and C19 external stacks at each end. Crosswing of 2 storeys, main range of one storey with attics. Beam Cottage, one C20 casement and one C20 oriel, 2 C20 casements on first floor, of which one is in a swept dormer. Double doors to garage, and C20 door. Beam projecting through front wall, mortised and tusk-tenoned. Cage Cottage, 2 C19 horizontally sliding sashes of 8 lights with crown glass, one C20 casement, and one more in swept dormer. C20 door in early C19 simple doorcase with shallow hood on scrolled brackets. Grouped diagonal shafts on main stack. The interior has heavy studding, curved tension bracing. The crosswing has plain joists of horizontal section jointed to the binding beam with central tenons, and 2 brackets of an underbuilt jetty. The inserted floors in the hall have transverse beams with run-out chamfers, and plain joists of vertical section. The central tiebeam has been moved to allow the construction of the inserted stack, but is still present. Hall roof of crownpost construction, smoke- bLackened, but collars, collar-purlin and crownposts missing. RCHM 34.
Listing NGR: TL6758830665
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 115280
- 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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