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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