White Hart Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Braintree local planning authority area, England. First listed on 13 March 1986. A C15 House. 3 related planning applications.
White Hart Cottage
- WRENN ID
- shadowed-finial-finch
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Braintree
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 13 March 1986
- Type
- House
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
White Hart Cottage is a house dating from the 15th century, with alterations made in the 16th, 17th, 19th, and 20th centuries. It is timber framed, plastered, and has a roof covered with handmade red clay tiles. The building features a three-bay hall range facing northeast and a two-bay crosswing to the left, which includes an early 17th-century axial stack at the junction. There is a late 17th-century extension to the right, along with 19th and 20th-century extensions to the rear and a lean-to on the right side.
The main range is one storey with attics, while the crosswing is two storeys high. On the ground floor, there are three 19th-century horizontal sash windows with eighteen, eighteen, and twelve lights, respectively, as well as three 20th-century casements. The first floor has one horizontal sash window with eighteen lights and three 20th-century casements in gabled dormers. A 20th-century porch is located on the left return. The crosswing features four diamond mortices for an unglazed window at the front of the ground floor, plain joists of horizontal section that are jointed to the binding beam with central tenons, and the right wallplate and roof have been replaced in softwood.
Inside, the hall has an early 17th-century inserted floor with joists of square section that are chamfered with lamb's tongue stops, supported on pegged clamps. The room to the right, likely the original parlour, has a chamfered axial beam with lamb's tongue stops, and the joists are plastered to the soffits. The right extension has a similar beam with thin vertical joists. There are two large wood-burning hearths, one of which has a mantel beam chamfered with lamb's tongue stops. The walls of the hall range have been raised approximately 0.50 metre, and the roof has been rebuilt. An early 19th-century staircase features turned posts and stick balusters.
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- No EPC on record for this property
- Sale history — 1 transaction since 2021
- Related listed building consents — 3 applications
- Detailed attributes — period, style, materials, features
- Flood risk assessment
- Radon risk assessment
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