Fir Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Braintree local planning authority area, England. First listed on 19 March 1986. Cottage. 3 related planning applications.
Fir Cottage
- WRENN ID
- broken-loft-sorrel
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Braintree
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 19 March 1986
- Type
- Cottage
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Fir Cottage is a late 17th-century cottage that has been altered in the 19th century. It is timber-framed with plaster rendering and a roof of handmade red clay tiles. The cottage has three bays facing southwest, with a central stack forming a lobby-entrance. There is a single-storey lean-to extension at the rear, now roofed with corrugated iron.
The cottage is one storey high with attics. It features two late 19th-century splayed casement windows, a central four-panel door with glazed upper panels, and pargetted panels with moulded borders. The roof is half-hipped at both ends, retaining original sprockets at the half-hips. A gabled porch sits on the left end.
Inside, the right bay contains a chamfered axial beam with lamb's tongue stops, and the left bay has a chamfered transverse beam with no stops. The original hearths have been reduced to accommodate 20th-century grates. The roof structure includes a clasped purlin roof and a scarf joint in the rear wallplate which is face-halved and bladed.
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