End Cottage
END COTTAGE, WATER LANE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1338349
- Date first listed:
- 16-May-1984
- List Entry Name:
- End Cottage
- Statutory Address:
- END COTTAGE, WATER LANE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1338349
- Date first listed:
- 16-May-1984
- List Entry Name:
- End Cottage
- Statutory Address 1:
- END COTTAGE, 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:
- END COTTAGE, WATER LANE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Essex
- District:
- Braintree (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Helions Bumpstead
- National Grid Reference:
- TL 65138 41429
Details
TL 64 SE HELIONS BUMPSTEAD WATER LANE 2/32 End Cottage
GV II
House, C16, altered in C19 and C20. Timber framed, plastered, roof thatched. 4 bays aligned NE-SW, aspect NW, with axial chimney stack in the middle. C20 wing to rear of SW end, forming an L-plan, and single-storey lean-to extension in E angle. Single storey with attics. C20 door, one horizontally sliding sash window of 12 lights, C19. 2 C20 casement windows, 2 more in gabled dormers. Roof hipped at SW end. Date 1799 in modern plaster of NE gable. Some framing exposed internally. Jowled posts, heavy studding with curved braces trenched outside, edge-halved and bridled scarf in SE wallplate. The NE bay was originally of one storey with a gablet roof, later extended to form a gable and floor inserted. There is an original central doorway into the next bay, showing that this was the service end. In the second bay there is a floor of longitudinal joists of horizontal section, unchamfered. Above this the roof is of collar-rafter construction, with some charred timbers. There are 2 large wood-burning hearths, both with apertures for bread ovens to the NW, and a cast iron fireback with the crest of the City of London and the initials FW, C17. SW of this, most of the structure has been renewed, as the result of a fire in 1883 and modern alterations. The fire was recorded in the Cambridge Evening News in 1883, at which time the building comprised 2 cottages, Worlds End Cottage and Water Lane Cottage.
Listing NGR: TL6513841429
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 114109
- 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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