Description

SX 99 NE BROADCLYST COLUMBJOHN

5/85 Pidgeon Cottage
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- II

House. C16 base, with C19 alterations. Coursed rubble volcanic trap base, brick
upper storeys, under fish-scale tiled roof-with composite gable end and half hip.
Reputedly built on the foundations of the dovecote to the (now demolished) Acland
mansion of Columbjohn. Square in plan with small rubble-stone outbuilding attached
to front at left. C20 brick lean-to extension; 2 storeys and attic. The stone base
rises to about 2 metres, now living quarters with C20 2-light windows inserted.
Above a brick storey in Flemish bond served by a flight of external stone stairs; 2-
light C19 timber casement windows with transom, the upper lights each under
depressed stone arch, 2 to front, 1 to right-hand side. No windows to rear. Above
this, a tiled roof, hipped it eaves level on brackets, but changing pitch to give an
attic storey with gabled ends, the gable walls half-timbered with brick nogging, and
a small attic window to each end. 3 attached brick chimneys shafts with stone
moulded cap, rise off ashlar base below the ridge.

Listing NGR: SX9598899951

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26464198

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Recommended Books

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  London 6: Westminster (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England): Westminster v. 6
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  Kent: North East and East (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Surrey (The Buildings of England) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Listed Buildings: The Law and Practice of Historic Buildings, Ancient Monuments and Conservation Areas
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  Harrow on the Hill: A photographic portrayal of listed buildings and structures (Historic Buildings Picture Guides)
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  The Listed Buildings and Other Principal Structures at the Royal Gunpowder Mills Waltham Abbey