Alma Cottage Norbury House
ALMA COTTAGE, 115, HIGH STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1337601
- Date first listed:
- 21-Dec-1967
- List Entry Name:
- Alma Cottage Norbury House
- Statutory Address:
- ALMA COTTAGE, 115, HIGH STREET
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1337601
- Date first listed:
- 21-Dec-1967
- List Entry Name:
- Alma Cottage Norbury House
- Statutory Address 1:
- ALMA COTTAGE, 115, HIGH STREET
- Statutory Address 2:
- NORBURY HOUSE, 117, HIGH STREET
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:
- ALMA COTTAGE, 115, HIGH STREET
- Statutory Address:
- NORBURY HOUSE, 117, HIGH STREET
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Essex
- District:
- Braintree (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Kelvedon
- National Grid Reference:
- TL 86180 18870
Details
KELVEDON HIGH STREET TL 8618-8718 (north-west side)
10/181 Nos. 115 (Alma Cottage) 21.12.67 and 117 (Norbury House)
GV II
House, now house and cottage. Circa 1600, altered in C18. Timber framed, plastered with facade,,of painted brick, roofed with handmade red plain tiles. 3 bays facing SE with stacks to left and rear of middle bay, and 2 rear wings. 2 storeys, attics and cellar. The left bay and a short section of the house to the left (item 10/180) comprise no. 115 (Alma Cottage). The cellar of this bay is entered from no. 113 (St. Andrews). The remainder comprises no. 117 (Norbury House). Ground floor, one C19 splayed bay and 2 late C18 3-light casements with modern glazing and C19 hood-moulds of plaster. First floor, one similar casement, and 2 late C18 3-light windows each with a wrought iron casement, moulded mullions, saddle bars, rectangular leading and a twisted stay bar. 3 C19 casements in gabled dormers. Gambrel roof, half-hipped at right end. C20 6-panel door and pedimented doorcase. Moulded coving under projecting eaves. Modern wrought iron brackets for gutter. Red clay pantiles on one roof to rear. In 2 right bays, chamfered axial beams with lamb's tongue stops. In middle bay the plain joists of square section are exposed, with unusual housed abutments and central tenons. Jowled posts. Straight tension braces trenched inside heavy studding. Early C19 stair with oval-section handrail and stick balusters (in no. 117). The ceiling over the middle first-floor room has an unusual construction; main joists form a cross, and plain joists are arranged diagonally across the quarters, like a spider's web, with chisel-cut assembly marks. The gambrel roof is an C18 alteration. RCHM 31.
Listing NGR: TL8618018870
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 116494
- 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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