Otters Brook Cottage
OTTERS BROOK COTTAGE, SPRATT'S MARSH
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1387251
- Date first listed:
- 17-May-1999
- List Entry Name:
- Otters Brook Cottage
- Statutory Address:
- OTTERS BROOK COTTAGE, SPRATT'S MARSH
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1387251
- Date first listed:
- 17-May-1999
- List Entry Name:
- Otters Brook Cottage
- Statutory Address 1:
- OTTERS BROOK COTTAGE, SPRATT'S MARSH
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:
- OTTERS BROOK COTTAGE, SPRATT'S MARSH
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Essex
- District:
- Colchester (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Great Horkesley
- National Grid Reference:
- TL9832830037
Details
This entry was subject to a Minor Amendment on 14 July 2017.
TL 92 NE GREAT HORKESLEY
986/8/10022
Spratt's Marsh
Otters Brook Cottage
II
House. C15, extended to the east C19 and with further C20 extensions. Timber-framed with rendered and colourwashed brick extensions; thatched roofs.
EXTERIOR: 3-bay C15 timber-framed house aligned east-west, the east bay absorbed into a C19 cross wing. North front of C15 build of 2 storeys. Principal and corner studs of heavy scantling supporting a middle rail and wall plate. Upper storey with exposed secondary studs. 2 ground-floor and 2 first-floor casements: all windows in the house are late C20 timber casements. West gable end of similar construction but with additional curved braces to the upper floor; one 2-light ground-floor window. South return similar to north, with one 3-light casement to ground floor, a 2-light version to first floor, and a 2-light casement fitted to a later dormer over the wall plate. Hipped roof. Ridge stack of C17 stretcher bond brick formerly the east gable-end stack.
Half-hipped C19 wing attached at right angles to the east of the C15 house, with a nearly full-length outshut to the east. C20 plank door under a C20 sloping porch roof. Fenestration of 2- and 3-light casements. Gabled dormer to east roof slope, with a 2-light casement.
Single-storey late C20 gabled extension abuts to north of the C19 wing. Late C20 conservatory abuts south end.
INTERIOR: not inspected.
Listing NGR: TL9832830037
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 475183
- 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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