Black Cottage
BLACK COTTAGE, MAIN ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1385987
- Date first listed:
- 18-Dec-1998
- List Entry Name:
- Black Cottage
- Statutory Address:
- BLACK COTTAGE, MAIN ROAD
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1385987
- Date first listed:
- 18-Dec-1998
- List Entry Name:
- Black Cottage
- Statutory Address 1:
- BLACK COTTAGE, MAIN 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:
- BLACK COTTAGE, MAIN ROAD
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Essex
- District:
- Chelmsford (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Margaretting
- National Grid Reference:
- TL6654101412
Details
TL 60 SE
719/12/10035
MARGARETTING
MAIN ROAD
Black Cottage
II
House. Mid C16, extended C20. Weatherboarded timber frame on brick plinth, plastered and whitewashed upper storey; machine tiled and plaintiled roofs. 2-cell plan running north-south, converted to T-plan in C20.
EXTERIOR: 2-storey, single-window C16 range. Early C20 half-glazed door to west front off-set right of centre. One 2-light Crittall casement to right and a similar casement to first floor. Gabled roof hipped to south. Stack emerges through roof slope to north. North gable jettied to first floor: one 3-light Crittall window to ground floor and one 2-light similar casement to attic. To left is single-storey addition of mid C20 under catslide roof fitted with one 3-light Crittall window. South elevation with early C20 brick external stack to left of central half-glazed door. One 3-light Crittall window to right in mid C20 2-storey extension. No first-floor openings. East elevation with brick stack flush with wall plane. One 2-light Crittall casement to right and 2 similar casements to first floor. Stack emerges at internal gable-end flue.
INTERIOR: C16 frame consists of 2 bays with jowled principal studs. Middle rails and wall plates chamfered and tongue stopped to each cell on each floor. Central truss supports pair of arched braces rising to support principal roof truss. First-floor ceilings plastered without access to roof. Early C20 straight-flight staircase immediately south of central truss. Walls either side with studwork, exposed to north. South entrance lobby with 3 exposed ceiling joists of heavy scantling. Similar bridging beam and joists to bathroom (south-west ground-floor room). C20 fittings of east rooms without architectural features. First floor: north-west room with early C19 cast-iron basket grate in fireplace and plank entrance door on strap hinges. South-west room with 3-plank C18 door on HL hinges.
Listing NGR: TL6654101412
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 471407
- 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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