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TQ 85 NW
6/38

BEARSTED
THE STREET (north side)
Baxter's Cottage, Eden Cottage and Oak Apple Cottage

(Formerly listed as Baxter's Cottage, Eden Cottage and Kozecot, previously listed as nos. 1,2, and 3 Sunnyside, Baxter's Cottage, Eden Cottage and Kozecot.)

13.11.73

II

Cottages. C16 and C18. Left part of Baxter's Cottage timber framed with red brick front. Rest of Baxter's Cottage and Eden Cottage chequered red and grey brick, Oak Apple Cottage rendered, all with plain tile roof. Left part of Baxter's Cottage: a lower building than the rest of the row. C16 with C18 front two storeys with plinth and platt band. Ridge stack at left end. One timber-framed bay with single C20 casement to each storey, that to ground floor with segmental head. Two-storey single-bay timber-framed addition to rear, late C16 or early C17, cement rendered with hipped plain tile roof and gablet. Right part of Baxter's Cottage, Eden Cottage and Oak Apple Cottage: C18. Two storeys and attic with plinth, platt band to Eden cottage only, and eaves cornice. Roof half-hipped at right end and half-hipped at left end above junction with left part of Baxter's cottage. Ridge stack off-centre to right. Two hipped dormers. One first-floor casement to each cottage over spaces between doors. Three doors with flat bracketted C19 hoods; ribbed door to Baxter's Cottage at left end, ribbed door to Eden Cottage towards centre, and plain C20 door with diamond light to Oak Apple Cottage towards right end. Rear catslide roof.

Interior: left part of Baxter's Cottage has evidence for window in right gable end wall on first floor of front bay, and exposed beams, joists and posts. Right part of Baxter's Cottage has side purlin roof.

Listing NGR: TQ8050755716

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26480705

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Recommended Books

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  Warwickshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Bedfordshire, Huntingdonshire, and Peterborough (Pevsner Architectural Guides): Written by Charles O'Brien, 2014 Edition, Publisher: Yale University Press [Hardcover]
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  Period Property Manual (New Ed)
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  Renovating Old Houses: Bringing New Life to Vintage Homes (For Pros By Pros)
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  The Listed Buildings and Other Principal Structures at the Royal Gunpowder Mills Waltham Abbey
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  This Old House: Restoring, Rehabilitating, and Renovating an Older House