Beacon Cottage
BEACON COTTAGE, BRAXTED ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1350399
- Date first listed:
- 08-Aug-1985
- List Entry Name:
- Beacon Cottage
- Statutory Address:
- BEACON COTTAGE, BRAXTED ROAD
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1350399
- Date first listed:
- 08-Aug-1985
- List Entry Name:
- Beacon Cottage
- Statutory Address 1:
- BEACON COTTAGE, BRAXTED 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:
- BEACON COTTAGE, BRAXTED ROAD
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Essex
- District:
- Maldon (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Little Braxted
- National Grid Reference:
- TL 85325 12948
Details
LITTLE BRAXTED
464/0/10004 BRAXTED ROAD 17-SEP-03 Beacon Cottage
GV II Former gardener's cottage, now house. 1903. Arthur Heygate Mackmurdo (1851-1942) for G.W. Taylor. Brick and rough cast with hipped tile roof. 2-storeys, double-pile with central entrance and scullery range to rear.
ELEVATION: Symmetrical facade has wide, advanced porch with arched opening flanked by 2-light windows, canted return to each side with single lights, all under shallow hipped roof. Entrance of narrow door, with 2-light window to centre at first floor. Roof flares upwards slightly at base. Pair of corbelled brick chimneys along ridge. Rear scullery range has hipped tile roof. All windows replaced in later-C20 but in original openings.
INTERIOR: Main room to each side of central hall with stick baluster and chamfered newel stair.
HISTORY: Built as the gardener's cottage to 1902-3 Beacons (q.v.), with which it has group value.
SOURCE: Signed drawings in Essex Record Office D/RMa/Pb2/257
A small gardener's cottage to Beacons (q.v.), both of which were designed by the important Arts and Crafts Architect A.H. Mackmurdo.
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 489970
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Other
Drawings in Essex Record Office {D/RMa/Pb2/257),
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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