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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