Florence Cottage Hillcrest

FLORENCE COTTAGE

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Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1338455
Date first listed:
19-Jun-1975
List Entry Name:
Florence Cottage Hillcrest
Statutory Address:
FLORENCE COTTAGE

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1338455
Date first listed:
19-Jun-1975
Date of most recent amendment:
29-Jun-1979
List Entry Name:
Florence Cottage Hillcrest
Statutory Address 1:
FLORENCE COTTAGE
Statutory Address 2:
HILLCREST

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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.

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Corrections and minor amendments

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.

Understanding list entries

Corrections and minor amendments

Location

Statutory Address:
FLORENCE COTTAGE
Statutory Address:
HILLCREST

The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.

County:
Essex
District:
Chelmsford (District Authority)
Parish:
Great Waltham
National Grid Reference:
TL 66528 18299

Details

In the following item: 1. GREAT WALTHAM NORTH END 5213 Hillcrest TL 61 NE 1/238

II

2. Timber-framed and plastered cottage possibly of C16 origin, altered in the C19. 2 storeys. 3 window range, casements with "Gothic" arched heads. There is a lattice porch. Roof thatched. (RCHM 43).

Hillcrest shall be amended to read; Hillcrest and Florence Cottage and the description should be amended to read as follows:-

A timber-framed and plastered cottage now two dwellings; possibly of C16 origin, altered in the C19. Roof thatched. 2 storeys. 3 window range, casements with "Gothic" arched heads. Hillcrest has a lattice porch and Florence Cottage a thatched lean to extension. (RCHN 45).

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GREAT WALTHAM NORTH END 1. 5213 Hillcrest

TL 61 NE 1/238 II 2. A timber-framed and plastered cottage possibly of Cl6 origin, altered in the Cl9. 2 storeys. 3 window range, casements with "Gothic" arched heads. There is a lattice porch. Roof thatched. (RCHM 43).

Listing NGR: TL6652818299

Legacy

The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.

Legacy System number:
112740
Legacy System:
LBS

Sources

Books and journals
An Inventory of Essex Central and South West, (1921)

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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