Webbs Cottage
WEBBS COTTAGE, RYE HILL ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1337311
- Date first listed:
- 30-Oct-1991
- List Entry Name:
- Webbs Cottage
- Statutory Address:
- WEBBS COTTAGE, RYE HILL ROAD
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- Date:
- 1999-10-04
- Reference:
- IOE01/02133/05
- Rights:
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1337311
- Date first listed:
- 30-Oct-1991
- List Entry Name:
- Webbs Cottage
- Statutory Address 1:
- WEBBS COTTAGE, RYE HILL 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:
- WEBBS COTTAGE, RYE HILL ROAD
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Essex
- District:
- Epping Forest (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Epping Upland
- National Grid Reference:
- TL 45272 06461
Details
The following building shall be added to the list:
TL 40 NE EPPING UPLAND RYE HILL ROAD
4/10000 Webbs Cottage
II House. Late C16. Timber-framed, rendered with weatherboarded first floor. Ground floor front wall rebuilt in painted brick. Plain tile roof. Two frame bays with central lobby entry. Two storeys. Remains of two-bay cross wing incorporated in single storey range under lean-to roof to left. Central plank doors within C20 open lean-to porch. 12-pane sashes to ground floor; that to left is early C18 in oak with thick glazing bars containing Crown glass; the other is later C18. To first floor 6-light sash windows. Interior: large stepped brick stack with mantel beam to inglenook which has been modified in C20 brick. The stack has been extended on the upper floor to provide a three-centred fireplace to the upper room above the hall. Cross and spine beams to ground floor, chamfered with bar stops. Chamfered joists with lambs-tongue stops to former hall; plain joists to service end to right. Straight flight of stairs inserted against end wall in subdivision of original hall. Single wall post visible to full height in this angle. Frame largely exposed at first floor level. Chamfered jowled posts with run-out stops. Arch braces to slightly cambered tie beams. Face-edged scarf to front wall plate. Clasped purlin roof with queen posts and windbraces. The side wall of the former cross wing incorporated in the side range has 2 full-height chamfered jowled posts. The front post has been truncated above ground floor level and the end of the arch brace has been sawn off. The central post is jowled to carry the floor beam which has been removed. Two cambered collars have been built into the later structure of the range.
Listing NGR: TL4527206461
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 118853
- 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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