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TQ59SE DARK LANE, Great Warley 723-1/8/135 (West side) 20/02/76 Nos.2 AND 3 Boyles Court Cottages (Formerly Listed as: DARK LANE, Great Warley Nos.2 AND 3 Boyles Cottages)

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Pair of cottages. Mid-late C17. Timber-framed, weatherboarded (boarded over lath and plaster in living memory), peg-tiled roof. Rectangular plan. End on to the road and at right-angles to Nos 4 & 5 (qv). EXTERIOR: 2 storey with central shared stack in red brick, later end out-shuts with lean-to roofs to both cottages. S front elevation, each house has a ground-floor sash window with glazing bars, 4x4 panes and a first-floor window of 4 casement lights with glazing bars, each casement with 2x3 panes (these upper windows used to have sliding sashes and were altered when the weatherboarding was added). Both houses have a doorway with simple lean-to peg-tiled porch on wooden posts. No.2 has a door with 4 flush panels with beaded edges, No.3 has a boarded door also with beaded edges. The out-shut to No.2 is slated and has a C20 2-light casement window with glazing bars, 4x3 panes. Out-shut to No.3 under corrugated asbestos roof with red brick stack through roof, also 2-light casement window with glazing bars, 4x3 panes, casements C20 but window frame probably earlier with bead moulding. Rear, N elevation, weatherboarded as front with symmetrical windows and doors installed in C20. Each house has ground floor back door, (No.2 fully glazed, No.3 lower sunk panel and upper glazed panel). 2-light casement window and 2-light casement window with glazing bars, 4x3 panes in out-shut. No.3 now has a porch/conservatory, weatherboarded with flat roof and 2-light window with top opening casement. On first floor each house has one 2-light and one single light casement window. E and W gable ends plain weatherboarded. INTERIORs of both cottages show identical timber-framing of slim timbers with no jowls and straight tension braces on the outer corners and in the central partition in line with the stack, also straight similar wind braces in the roof pitches. The 2 houses were built as a pair and remain minimally altered. Nos 2 & 3, 4 & 5 (qv) Dark Lane form a group. (RCHM: Central and SW Essex, South Weald : Monument 9: 217).

Listing NGR: TQ5827691301

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Recommended Books

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  Old House Care and Repair
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  This Old House: Restoring, Rehabilitating, and Renovating an Older House
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  Hampshire: South (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Yorkshire West Riding: Leeds, Bradford and the North (Pevsner Architectural Guides / Buildings of England)
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  Churches: An Architectural Guide (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Introductions)
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  Bristol (Pevsner Architectural Guides: City Guides)