Hatches
HATCHES, HOBBS CROSS ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1337574
- Date first listed:
- 26-Apr-1984
- List Entry Name:
- Hatches
- Statutory Address:
- HATCHES, HOBBS CROSS ROAD
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1337574
- Date first listed:
- 26-Apr-1984
- List Entry Name:
- Hatches
- Statutory Address 1:
- HATCHES, HOBBS CROSS 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:
- HATCHES, HOBBS CROSS ROAD
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Essex
- District:
- Harlow (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Non Civil Parish
- National Grid Reference:
- TL 48866 10834
Details
TL 41 SE MATCHING HOBBS CROSS ROAD Hatches 2/38
GV II
Small house, c.1600, altered in C19 and C20. Timber framed, plastered, thatched roof. 3 bays aligned NW-SE, aspect SW. Original axial chimney stack at SE end of middle bay. Early C19 chimney stack at NW end. Lean-to extension to NW, with corrugated iron roof, C19 lean-to extension to NE with slate roof, c.1972. Single storey with attics. One C19 cast iron casement window in NW extension, plain boarded door, 3 C20 casement windows, 2 more in eyebrow dormers. Timber frame partly exposed internally. Jowled posts, arched braces rising from corner posts to tie beams and wallplates, trenched inside studs. Original floor in NW bay, axial beam with lamb's tongue stops. Floor in middle bay probably inserted early in the life of the building, axial beam with lamb's tongue stops, joists supported on pegged clamps at sides. No evidence of unglazed windows. Chimney stack apparently reduced in depth, front to back. Partition between middle and NW bay is of exposed studding, with wattle fixings in sides, one original plain doorway through. At first floor level a doorway has been inserted through the tie beam, strongly framed to resist tension, and later blocked. This building has been divided into 2 cottages in the early C19, with an extra door inserted and later blocked, now re-combined into one dwelling. The SE end of the roof may be hipped or half-hipped originally, but this is now covered by continuous thatch to the next house.
Listing NGR: TL4886610834
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 118159
- 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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