Sockets Cottages
SOCKETS COTTAGES, 1-4, LAMBOURNE ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1337288
- Date first listed:
- 29-May-1984
- List Entry Name:
- Sockets Cottages
- Statutory Address:
- SOCKETS COTTAGES, 1-4, LAMBOURNE ROAD
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1337288
- Date first listed:
- 29-May-1984
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 12-Mar-1986
- List Entry Name:
- Sockets Cottages
- Statutory Address 1:
- SOCKETS COTTAGES, 1-4, LAMBOURNE ROAD
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:
- SOCKETS COTTAGES, 1-4, LAMBOURNE ROAD
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Essex
- District:
- Epping Forest (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Chigwell
- National Grid Reference:
- TQ 46243 93241
Details
TQ 49 SE CHIGWELL 5/11 LAMBOURNE ROAD nos 1 - 5 (consec) (Sockets Cottages) GV II The address shall be amended to: LAMBOURNE ROAD Nos 1 - 4 (consec (Sockets Cottages( In the descriptive notes the words 'no 5 (at SW end) C20 glazed door'shall be amended to read 'no 4 (at SW end) C20 glazed door'.
------------------------------------ TQ 49 SE LAMBOURNE ROAD 5/11 CHIGWELL Nos 1-5 [consec] [sockets cottages] GV II
Complex group of cottages, early C19 and earlier. Timber framed, plastered and weatherboarded, roofed with handmade red clay plain tiles and pantiles. Originally comprised one block aligned approx. NE-SW, aspect SE, with hipped roof and axial chimney stack near SW end. Chimney stack added near NE end in front pitch of roof. Rear extension from NE end, with chimney stack in gable end, and single-storey extension with single-pitch roof beyond. Parallel range behind SW end, with central chimney stack and hipped roof. SW extension from SW lend of original block, with chimney stack against party wall, and later parallel range behind it with hipped roof. 2 storeys. No. 1 (at SW end) half-glazed door with shallow hood, one double-hung sash window of 12 lights, late C19, and one C19 casement window above. This elevation is set back'front _the remainder, and is weatherboarded. No. 2 (SW end of original block), half-glazed door in fluted wooden doorcase, early C19, and one casement window on each floor, C20. No. 3 (next cottage to NE) similar door and doorcase, and one double-hung sash window of 12 lights on each floor. No. 5 (at SW end) C20 glazed door, simple doorcase with shallow bracketed and dentilled hood on scrolled brackets and one double- hung sash window of 12 lights on each floor.
Listing NGR: TQ4624393241
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 118596
- 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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