Pond Cottage
POND COTTAGE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1337575
- Date first listed:
- 26-Apr-1984
- List Entry Name:
- Pond Cottage
- Statutory Address:
- POND COTTAGE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1337575
- Date first listed:
- 26-Apr-1984
- List Entry Name:
- Pond Cottage
- Statutory Address 1:
- POND COTTAGE
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:
- POND COTTAGE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Essex
- District:
- Epping Forest (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Matching
- National Grid Reference:
- TL 50743 10908
Details
TL 51 SW MATCHING HOUSHAM TYE 3/8 Pond Cottage
GV II
Cottage, C16, altered in C18 and C20. Timber framed, mainly weatherboarded, W elevation infilled with C20 brick and frame exposed externally, roof thatched. 3 bays aligned E-W, aspect N. Axial chimney stacks at E end, C18/19, and at E end of W bay, C20. Lean-to sheds at both ends. Single storey with attics. S elevation, 3 C20 casement windows, swept. dormer with casement window. Roof half-hipped at W only. Some framing exposed internally. Jowled posts, curved tension bracing trenched to inside of studs, all original tiebeams intact. The W elevation is of interrupted tiebeam construction, with an unglazed window of 2 diamond mullions at tie level, all in situ and exposed externally. There is original wattle and daub visible where covered by a lean- to shed to the W and wattle and daub is reported to be present in the wall between the middle and E bays. Roof altered, with 2 smoke-blackened rafters re- used. The N elevation of this building is well illustrated in the Walker map of 1609 (Essex Record Office D/DU 25), and this clarifies its development. In 1609 it comprised 3 bays with a chimney stack in the middle bay, the E bay of one storey and approximately 1 metre shorter than at present, the W bay in 2 storeys from the outset. The lower room was lit by windows to N and S (it is significant that Walker illustrates the N window slightly lower than the other 2), the upper room lit by the window in the W elevation which is still present beneath the half-hip. At some later time, probably in the C18, the central chimney stack was demolished to increase interior room space, floors were inserted in this and the E. bay, and the stack was rebuilt externally at the E end. Subsequently the building was extended eastwards by approximately 1 metre to bring this stack into the building and to use the space to each side. The alterations to the wallplates are fixed with forelocks. In the C20 a small chimney stack was built in the W bay and the floor was rebuilt at a higher level to compensate for subsidence or rising ground levels. The present N door occupies the position of the middle window illustrated by Walker, but the evidence of it is still apparent in the structure. C20 windows occupy the positions of the other windows shown in the Walker map.
Listing NGR: TL5074310908
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 118163
- 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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