Rede Cottage
REDE COTTAGE, CURDS ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1391650
- Date first listed:
- 28-Apr-2006
- List Entry Name:
- Rede Cottage
- Statutory Address:
- REDE COTTAGE, CURDS ROAD
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1391650
- Date first listed:
- 28-Apr-2006
- List Entry Name:
- Rede Cottage
- Statutory Address 1:
- REDE COTTAGE, CURDS 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:
- REDE COTTAGE, CURDS ROAD
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Essex
- District:
- Braintree (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Earls Colne
- National Grid Reference:
- TL 85367 27491
Details
EARLS COLNE
1247/0/10005 CURDS ROAD 28-APR-06 Rede Cottage
II Cottage. Late C17 or early C18. Timber framed with rendered and washed walls and a thatched roof. Two-cell plan of one and a half storeys with central hearth. Exterior: The entrance front has a gabled porch to left of centre with exposed brick to the lower body and a battened C20 door. To right is a 3-light C20 casement and at left is a 2-light casement. There is a ridge stack to right of centre with C20 bricks. The south-west gable end has a single-light and a 2-light casement at ground floor level. to the attic is a single-light window. At right is a flat-roofed C20 extension with 2-light casement. The northwest gable end has a projecting C20 flat-roofed extension at ground floor level. The rear has a single-light window to right of centre. Interior: There are jowled corner posts and close-studded walls with passing braces. There is no staircase leading to the attic. There is evidence of some blocked windows to the rear. This modest cottage has been extended at ground floor level, but with minimum disturbance to the timber frame which is remarkably intact. There has also been little disturbance to the walls by insertion of windows and there is no added staircase to the attic. Such a degree of survival is rare and particularly so in this part of the country.
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 490706
- 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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