Description

TM 07 SW WATTISFIELD THE STREET (EAST SIDE)

3/100 Tudor Cottage

GV II

House. Late C15. Timber-framed and rendered; old plaintiles. 1½ storeys; 3-
cell plan, formerly with an open hall, now with an internal chimney-stack. A
plain shaft to the stack in old red brick. 2 dormers with 3-light C20
casement windows. 3 Edwardian projecting bays to the ground floor, 2 with 3-
light casement windows and hipped roofs, one 2-light with conical roof.
Interior of former hall area now divided up. Crown-post roof, with the crown-
post embedded in a later partition wall: octagonal shaft, shaped base with
triangle stops and a keeled ring above, moulded top surmounded by remains of
embattling, 4-way bracing at head. Plain inserted ceiling to hall, chamfered
main beam, unchamfered joists; a similar ceiling in the parlour, which has a
reinstated open fireplace with new timber lintel. On the rear wall, a C18 3-
light casement window with transome and square leaded panes, now enclosed by
later rear extensions.

Listing NGR: TM0102974154

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26283540

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Recommended Books

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  Old House Handbook: A Practical Guide to Care and Repair
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  Maintaining and Repairing Old Houses: A Guide to Conservation, Sustainability and Economy
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  The Listed Buildings and Other Principal Structures at the Royal Gunpowder Mills Waltham Abbey
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  Kent: West and the Weald: The Buildings of England (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  This Old House: Restoring, Rehabilitating, and Renovating an Older House
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  Old House Care and Repair