Moor Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Braintree local planning authority area, England. First listed on 29 July 1988. House.
Moor Cottage
- WRENN ID
- sharp-plinth-tide
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Braintree
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 29 July 1988
- Type
- House
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Moor Cottage is a house that dates back to the early 17th century and was extended in the 18th century. It features a timber frame and brick construction, with a plastered exterior and a roof made of handmade red plain tiles. The house has two bays facing southwest, with an original rear stack located in the left bay and an original rear stair tower to the right of it. There is also an 18th-century stack in the rear right corner. To the left, there is a one-bay extension from the 18th century, along with a 20th-century flat-roofed single-storey entrance lobby and garage beyond.
The cottage stands two storeys high with attics. On the ground floor, there is one 20th-century casement window, one late 19th-century sash window with 16 lights, and one early 19th-century sash window with 16 lights. The first floor has three 20th-century casement windows, with an additional casement in a lean-to dormer. The ground floor is faced with plastered brick at the front and both returns, and the roof is exceptionally steeply pitched.
Inside, the ground floor features boxed axial beams and one transverse beam, which is likely a modern replacement, along with a large wood-burning hearth. The first floor has exposed framing, including jowled posts, near-straight tension braces set inside the studding, a face-halved and bladed scarf in the rear wallplate, chamfered axial beams with lamb's tongue stops, and plain joists of square section. The roof has clasped purlins with arched collars. The left bay includes unjowled posts and primary straight bracing. The stair tower retains its original stair, which has an octagonal newel post extending from the ground to the attic, a rare feature. Both storeys are exceptionally high.
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