34 AND 36, WATER LANE
34 AND 36, WATER LANE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1338104
- Date first listed:
- 20-Aug-1991
- List Entry Name:
- 34 AND 36, WATER LANE
- Statutory Address:
- 34 AND 36, WATER LANE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1338104
- Date first listed:
- 20-Aug-1991
- List Entry Name:
- 34 AND 36, WATER LANE
- Statutory Address 1:
- 34 AND 36, WATER LANE
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:
- 34 AND 36, WATER LANE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Essex
- District:
- Braintree (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Bures Hamlet
- National Grid Reference:
- TL 90318 34071
Details
The following Building shall be added:-
BURES HAMLET TL 9034 WATER LANE
5/107 NO. 34 AND 36 II Pair of cottages C17 with C19 extension and C16 fragment. Timber framed with painted brick facade. Other walls rendered. South face of roof is hung in handmade clay plain tiles. North face in slate. 2 axial brick stacks. Each cottage single bay. Shared stack with winding stairs on south side. C19 rear extension comprises kitchen on ground floor with bedroom above C20 casement windows and 2 C20 doors. On west gable end of NO. 36 facing outward is a fireplace opening now bricked in but still with its original mantel beams with stop chamfer moulding and brick jambs. A section of cross frame with swept jowls to posts, tie beams, and cut off wall plate also survives. The stack has been adapted to serve No.36 but is a remnant of an earlier timber framed house to the immediate west demolished earlier in C20. No.'s 34 and 36 were built up against this structure. The rear roof is at a much shallower pitch than the front face to accommodate the rear addition. The whole roof was raised probably in C19. Interior of 36 includes chamfered spine beam with drawn out stop., vertical section joists and exposed studwork on party wall. C17 fireplace opening with chamfered mantel beam. Adjoining cupboard has strap hinges. 12 inch wide oak floor boards to upper floors. Water lane is wrongly shown on the O.S map as brook street.
Listing NGR: TL9031834071
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 114905
- 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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