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Fir Cottage

A Grade II Listed Building in Wethersfield, Essex

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Coordinates

Latitude: 51.9453 / 51°56'43"N

Longitude: 0.4997 / 0°29'59"E

OS Eastings: 571905

OS Northings: 230372

OS Grid: TL719303

Mapcode National: GBR PH2.15H

Mapcode Global: VHJJ3.MC1L

Plus Code: 9F32WFWX+4V

Entry Name: Fir Cottage

Listing Date: 19 March 1986

Grade: II

Source: Historic England

Source ID: 1168308

English Heritage Legacy ID: 115640

ID on this website: 101168308

Location: Sand Hill, 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

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Description


TL 73 SW
1/127

WETHERSFIELD
BRAINTREE ROAD
(east side)
Fir Cottage

II

Cottage. Late C17, altered in C19. Timber framed, plastered, roofed with
handmade red clay tiles. 3 bays facing SW, with central stack forming a
lobby-entrance. Single-storey lean-to extension at rear, roofed with corrugated
iron. One storey with attics. 2 late C19 splayed bays of casements, central
4-panel door, the upper panels glazed. Pargetted in panels with moulded
borders. Roof half-hipped at both ends, with original sprockets at half-hips.
Gabled porch on left end. Chamfered axial beam with lamb's tongue stops in
right bay. Chamfered transverse beam in left bay, unstopped. Hearths both
reduced for C20 grates. Face-halved and bladed scarf in rear wallplate.
Clasped purlin roof.

Listing NGR: TL7190530372

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