Cook'S Green is a Grade II listed building in the Braintree local planning authority area, England. First listed on 12 November 1984. A Post-Medieval House. 1 related planning application.
Cook'S Green
- WRENN ID
- turning-bastion-soot
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Braintree
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 12 November 1984
- Type
- House
- Period
- Post-Medieval
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Cook's Green is a house dating to around 1600, which was extended in the early 19th century to form two cottages, now combined into a single dwelling. The house is timber-framed, with plaster infill and a roof of handmade red clay tiles. It has three bays facing north, with an internal chimney stack against the south wall. An early 19th-century extension projects to the right, also with an internal chimney stack at its end, and a slate-roofed lean-to extension beyond. The house is one storey in height with attics. Four casement windows were added in the 20th century, along with three dormers featuring swept roofs. A boarded door and a half-glazed door, both 20th-century additions, provide access.
The interior retains several original features, including jowled posts, exposed heavy studding with arch-braces trenched inside at the corners, transverse and axial beams chamfered with lamb's tongue stops, and plain horizontal joists. Diamond mortices, indicating the former locations of two unglazed windows, are visible near the front right corner of the original building. The roof structure incorporates smoke-blackened rafters re-used from a previous roof. The roof was thatched until 1983.
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