Hillside Cottage the Homestead
HILLSIDE COTTAGE, BROOK STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1337763
- Date first listed:
- 21-Dec-1967
- List Entry Name:
- Hillside Cottage the Homestead
- Statutory Address:
- HILLSIDE COTTAGE, BROOK STREET
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1337763
- Date first listed:
- 21-Dec-1967
- List Entry Name:
- Hillside Cottage the Homestead
- Statutory Address 1:
- HILLSIDE COTTAGE, BROOK STREET
- Statutory Address 2:
- THE HOMESTEAD, BROOK 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:
- HILLSIDE COTTAGE, BROOK STREET
- Statutory Address:
- THE HOMESTEAD, BROOK STREET
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Essex
- District:
- Braintree (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Great Bardfield
- National Grid Reference:
- TL 67590 30525
Details
TL 6730 GREAT BARDFIELD BROOK STREET (south side)
8/142 The Homestead and 21.12.67 Hillside Cottage
GV II
House, divided into 2 houses, and extended. C15, altered in C17 and later. Timber framed, plastered, roofed with handmade red clay tiles. 2-bay hall range facing N, with late C16 inserted stack in left bay. 2-bay service crosswing to left, jettied to the front, and 2-bay parlour/solar crosswing to right, with underbuilt jetty. External stack to right, enclosed by later parallel crosswing. Wing to rear of this, extending to right, parallel with street, with internal stack. 2 storeys. The Homestead comprises the left crosswing and hall range. One splayed bay of C20 sashes below jetty, which has exposed joists and 2 plain brackets. one C20 casement on ground floor, 2 on first floor. Plain door with small pane. Original cusped bargeboards on gable of crosswing, and below, date 1609 painted on plaster. Grouped diagonal shafts on main stack. Hillside Cottage comprises the parlour/solar crosswing and extensions to right. 2-window range of early C20 sashes of 6 lights. C20 door in right return wall. Rear extension of painted brick, with hipped roof. Modern red clay tiles on right crosswing and rear wing. The hall has been raised or rebuilt to 2-storey height in the C17. RCHM 9.
Listing NGR: TL6759030525
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 115281
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Other
An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in Essex North West, (1916)
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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