The Old Cottage
THE OLD COTTAGE, BRICK KILN GREEN
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1337871
- Date first listed:
- 19-Mar-1986
- List Entry Name:
- The Old Cottage
- Statutory Address:
- THE OLD COTTAGE, BRICK KILN GREEN
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- Reference:
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1337871
- Date first listed:
- 19-Mar-1986
- List Entry Name:
- The Old Cottage
- Statutory Address 1:
- THE OLD COTTAGE, BRICK KILN GREEN
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:
- THE OLD COTTAGE, BRICK KILN GREEN
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Essex
- District:
- Braintree (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Wethersfield
- National Grid Reference:
- TL7351131579
Details
TL 73 SW
1/132
WETHERSFIELD
BRICK KILN GREEN
(west side)
The Old Cottage
GV
II
Cottage, extended to form 2 cottages, now combined. C.1590, altered in C18.
2 bays facing SE with external stack at left end, now enclosed by C18 extension.
C18 stack and extension at right end, forming 4 bays in all, formerly 2 cottages
each with a central stack. One storey and attics. 4 C20 casements, and 2 more
in gabled dormers. Plain boarded door in gabled porch, C20. The original
building has jowled posts, close studding with curved braces trenched to the
inside, unstopped chamfered axial beams, plain joists of horizontal section
supported on original pegged clamps, and a clasped purlin roof with arched wind
bracing. The left end of it is of interrupted tiebeam construction with a
chamfered girt with lamb's tongue stops, and blocked unglazed windows on both
storeys. 2 large wood-burning hearths, reduced for C20 grates. One moulded
door, probably original, and other plain ledged doors. Some original
floorboards. Internal tiebeams severed.
Listing NGR: TL7351131579
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 115645
- 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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