Lichen Cottage
LICHEN COTTAGE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1338101
- Date first listed:
- 12-Nov-1984
- List Entry Name:
- Lichen Cottage
- Statutory Address:
- LICHEN COTTAGE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1338101
- Date first listed:
- 12-Nov-1984
- List Entry Name:
- Lichen Cottage
- Statutory Address 1:
- LICHEN COTTAGE
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:
- LICHEN COTTAGE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Essex
- District:
- Braintree (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Pebmarsh
- National Grid Reference:
- TL 84155 33280
Details
PEBMARSH TL 83 SW 3/84 Lichen Cottage - II Cottage. Early C17, extended in early C19 and C20. Timber framed, plastered with some exposed framing, early C19 extension of red brick in Flemish bond, both roofs of slate. 3 bays facing S with central chimney stack, one storey with attics, with steep roof, half-hipped at right end, originally thatched. Extension to left with chimney stack in left return wall. 2 storeys, roof of shallow pitch. Rear lean-to extension, c.1975. 5 C20 casements on ground floor, 3 more on first floor, of which one is in a swept dormer. C20 door. Inscriptions 'WA 1840' and 'CA 1840' in brick front beside left window. The interior has jowled posts, curved corner braces inside studding, not trenched, chamfered axial beams, exposed plain joists of horizontal section, clasped purlin roof. 2 stairs, one in each build, dating from its use as 2 cottages in the C19. Floors apparently raised about 0.15 to 0.2 metre. Original hearths, plastered over on left side, exposed brick on right side.
Listing NGR: TL8415533280
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 114882
- 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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