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Latitude: 51.9478 / 51°56'52"N
Longitude: 0.5301 / 0°31'48"E
OS Eastings: 573983
OS Northings: 230723
OS Grid: TL739307
Mapcode National: GBR PGX.W9F
Mapcode Global: VHJJ4.49LN
Plus Code: 9F32WGXJ+42
Entry Name: The Thatched Cottage
Listing Date: 19 March 1986
Grade: II
Source: Historic England
Source ID: 1168190
English Heritage Legacy ID: 115614
ID on this website: 101168190
Location: Blackmore End, Braintree, Essex, CM7
County: Essex
District: Braintree
Civil Parish: Wethersfield
Traditional County: Essex
Lieutenancy Area (Ceremonial County): Essex
Church of England Parish: Wethersfield St Mary Magdalene
Church of England Diocese: Chelmsford
Tagged with: Cottage Thatched cottage
TL 73 SW
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WETHERSFIELD
BLACKMORE END ROAD
(south-west side)
The Thatched Cottage
GV
II
House. Early C16 or earlier, altered c.1600 and in C19. Timber framed,
plastered, roof thatched. 2-bay hall facing NE, with C17/C18 stack at left end,
and storeyed parlour/solar bay to right. C19 stack to right, and C19 one-bay
extension beyond. Single-storey lean-to extension to rear, roofed with
corrugated iron. One storey with attics. Ground floor, 2 C19 horizontally
sliding sashes of 12 lights, and one C19 small casement. First floor, 2 similar
sashes in gabled dormers. 2 plain boarded doors. Beam of inserted floor
projects through front wall, morticed and tusk-tenoned. Jowled posts with step
stops, heavy studding, diamond mortices of former unglazed windows in front and
rear walls of hall. The inserted floor in the hall comprises a chamfered
transverse beam with elaborated step stops, tusk-tenoned at both ends, and plain
longitudinal joists of horizontal section supported on pegged clamps, c.1600.
The roof of tne hall is of collar-rafter construction, all timbers heavily
smoke-blackened. The central tiebeam of the hall has been removed. The tiebeam
between hall and solar has been severed for an inserted doorway. The roof of
the solar has been rebuilt. This house has passed through the stage of being
adapted to form 2 cottages in the early C19, and re-combined.
Listing NGR: TL7398330723
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