OAKLAND COTTAGE

33, HIGH STREET

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Overview

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1337637
Date first listed:: 21-Dec-1967
List Entry Name:: OAKLAND COTTAGE
Statutory Address:: 33, HIGH STREET

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Date:: 2002-03-28
Reference:: IOE01/06548/14
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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1337637
Date first listed:: 21-Dec-1967
Date of most recent amendment:: 29-Jul-1988
List Entry Name:: OAKLAND COTTAGE
Statutory Address 1:: 33, HIGH STREET
Statutory Address 2:: OAKLAND COTTAGE, 31, HIGH STREET

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.

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This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

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.

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Location

Statutory Address:: 33, HIGH STREET
Statutory Address:: OAKLAND COTTAGE, 31, 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 85975 18531

Details

KELVEDON HIGH STREET TL 8418-8518

9/166 No. 31 (Oakland 21.12.67 Cottage) and No. 33 (formerly listed as Oaklands, Oaklands Cottage (Shop)

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House, now divided into cottage (no. 31) and house (no. 33). C14 to c.1600, altered in C17/18. Timber framed, plastered, roofed with handmade red plain tiles. C14 2-bay crosswing at right end with C19 stack to right. 3-bay main range of c.1600 facing SE, with stack behind right bay. 2-storey rear wing of 2 bays at left end, with internal stack at the junction. C18 lean-to extension along rear of main range and crosswing, forming a catslide with the main roof, enclosing the rear stack. Single-storey lean-to extension to right of rear wing, with slate roof. 2 storeys. Ground floor, 2 C19 square bays of casements, one early C19 sash of 12 lights, one early C19 sash of 2 + 4 lights. First floor, 3 early C19 sashes of 16 lights, but upper sash of middle window converted to 2 lights. Crown glass. Full-length jetty with attached moulded fascia carved in relief F M M 1685. No. 31 has a blocked door converted to a C20 casement, and an entrance in the left return. No. 33 has a 6-panel door. In the main range, chamfered axial and transverse beams with lamb's tongue stops and plain joists of vertical section. C20 grates in rear stacks. In crosswing, heavy plain joists of horizontal section jointed to chamfered binding beam with unrefined central tenons. Jowled posts, studding partly exposed internally. The front wall of the crosswing has been raised approx. one metre above tiebeam level, and roofed in line with that of the main range, in clasped purlin form, enclosing the rear bay of the original roof structure, with crownpost, collar-purlin, axial bracing, collars and rafters. Blocked unglazed window at rear. On the first floor of the main range is a borrowed light of re-used early handmade glass, some of amber hue, some clear, in diamond leading; a signature is inscribed in one quarry. This feature merits special care. Chamfered axial beams with lamb's tongue stops above first floor of main range. The left rear wing (part of no. 31) has a chamfered transverse beam with lamb's tongue stops, plain joists of vertical section, a wide wood-burning hearth converted to 2 C19 cupboards and a C20 grate, and a clasped purlin roof. The marriage register for Kelvedon for 1685 is extant, and does not record a marriage corresponding with the carved initials. RCHM 37. (A part of the next building to the NE is included in the same property as No. 33, but this is treated as part of item 9/167, q.v.).

Listing NGR: TL8597518531

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Legacy System number:: 116479
Legacy System:: LBS

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This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.