Belle Couture is a Grade II listed building in the Braintree local planning authority area, England. First listed on 21 December 1967. House, shop.
Belle Couture
- WRENN ID
- solitary-trefoil-gorse
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Braintree
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 21 December 1967
- Type
- House, shop
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Belle Couture is a house that has been converted into a shop and residence. It dates from the 18th century and has undergone alterations in the 19th and 20th centuries. The building is timber framed, mostly covered in plaster, and has a roof made of handmade red plain tiles. It features three bays facing northwest, with a central axial stack made of gault brick near the left end. The building adjoins No. 142 (The White House) at the right end.
At the rear right, there is a 19th-century lean-to extension with a slate roof, and along the rest of the rear, there is a 20th-century flat-roofed single-storey extension. The main structure is one storey high with attics. It includes one 19th-century splayed bay window with sashes arranged in a 2-6-2 light configuration, a 20th-century shop window, and a half-glazed door from the 20th century. There are also two late 19th-century sashes with six lights in flat-roofed dormers. The building has a gambrel roof that is half-hipped at the left end.
The left side of the building has a painted brick finish on the ground floor only. The rear elevation features a triple casement window with three semi-circular heads, along with three 19th-century casements in dormers, one of which is a lean-to while the others have segmental roofs. There is a plain boarded rear door.
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