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
Address
Fir Cottage, Braintree Road, Wethersfield, CM7 4AG
OS grid reference
TL 719 303
Coordinates
51.94529, 0.49974
Source
Historic England listing

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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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  • Flood risk assessment
  • Radon risk assessment
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