Little Cooper's Cottage

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TQ 78 NW

PITSEA Pitsea Hall Lane Wat Tyler Park Little Cooper's Cottage

(formerly listed as Little Coopers Cottage, MARSH ROAD (west side), previously listed as Little Coopers Farmhouse, Takeley)

20.6.80

GV II House. Mid C16; two bays to left heightened in late C17. Weatherboard over timber frame; half-hipped thatch roof; brick ridge stack. Three-unit plan, probably open to roof, remodelled in late C17 as three-unit lobby-entry plan. One storey and attic; three-window range. C19 plank door and C20 windows; dormer has C19 two-light leaded casement with original fittings.

Interior: late C17 ogee-stopped chamfered beams of inserted floors to centre and left; chimneystack to right probably replaced former C16 smoke bay; service room to right, unaltered in late C17, is open to common rafter roof. First floor has exposed tie beam/wall plate assembly of former C16 roof, removed and heightened in late C17; late C17 clasped purlin roof with original common rafters. C17 floorboards; dormer window has mortices for former C17 diamond-mullioned window.

N.B. This building was previously listed in the 59th list of buildings of special architectural or historic interest in the District of Uttlesford, Essex.

Listing NGR: TQ7424889255