Number 2, Brook Cottage and Adjacent to Cottage to North
NUMBER 2, BROOK COTTAGE AND ADJACENT COTTAGE TO NORTH, VICARAGE ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1337797
- Date first listed:
- 17-May-1985
- List Entry Name:
- Number 2, Brook Cottage and Adjacent to Cottage to North
- Statutory Address:
- NUMBER 2, BROOK COTTAGE AND ADJACENT COTTAGE TO NORTH, VICARAGE ROAD
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1337797
- Date first listed:
- 17-May-1985
- List Entry Name:
- Number 2, Brook Cottage and Adjacent to Cottage to North
- Statutory Address 1:
- NUMBER 2, BROOK COTTAGE AND ADJACENT COTTAGE TO NORTH, VICARAGE 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:
- NUMBER 2, BROOK COTTAGE AND ADJACENT COTTAGE TO NORTH, VICARAGE ROAD
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Essex
- District:
- Braintree (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Finchingfield
- National Grid Reference:
- TL6873132716
Details
TL 6832
7/100
FINCHINGFIELD
VICARAGE ROAD
(east side)
No. 2 Brook Cottage and adjacent cottage to north
II
House, now 2 cottages. C17 or earlier, altered in C19. Timber framed,
plastered, roofed with handmade red clay tiles. 4 bays facing E, with internal
stack near middle against rear wall, and a C19 internal stack at each end.
Extended to left, C18/C19, and divided into cottages. 2 extensions to rear. One
storey with attics. 4 C19 casements, 4 more in gabled dormers. 2 boarded
doors, each with a small pane and shallow hood on profiled brackets. One
diagonally arranged shaft on main stack. In the right bay, longitudinal joists
of horizontal section. In the next bay, chamfered axial beam with lamb's tongue
stops and square joists. Large wood-burning hearth, the mantel beam chamfered
with lamb's tongue stops. Jowled posts, cambered tiebeams. Originally of one
storey and minimal loft, the walls have been raised approx. 1 metre, probably in
the late C17 or C18.
Listing NGR: TL6873132716
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 115242
- 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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