156 AND 158, CRESSING ROAD
156 AND 158, CRESSING ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1338315
- Date first listed:
- 08-Sept-1983
- List Entry Name:
- 156 AND 158, CRESSING ROAD
- Statutory Address:
- 156 AND 158, CRESSING ROAD
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1338315
- Date first listed:
- 08-Sept-1983
- List Entry Name:
- 156 AND 158, CRESSING ROAD
- Statutory Address 1:
- 156 AND 158, CRESSING 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:
- 156 AND 158, CRESSING ROAD
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Essex
- District:
- Braintree (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Non Civil Parish
- National Grid Reference:
- TL 77018 23011
Details
TL 72 SE CRESSING ROAD
BRAINTREE
691/8/1
Nos. 156 and 158
II
Pair of cottages 1918 by C H B Quennell and W F Crittall. Concrete block construction painted. Flat roof. Each two storeys, 2 windows wide with outer bay recessed. Windows square headed with replacement metal frames and chevron pattern to lintel. Entrances in recessed porches now enclosed. Moulded cornice and parapet.
Original show houses, built by Crittalls Manufacturing Company to demonstrate use of modular system of concrete block construction in response to need for cheap housing after First World War.
Architectural Review January -June 1919 page 64-6.
An Example of Unit Building carried out by the Crittall Manufacturing Company at Braintree Essex. Prospectus to original show home 1918
Listing NGR: TL7701823011
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 113819
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Architectural Review in June, (1919), 64-6
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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