Sockets Cottages

Sockets Cottages is a complex group of cottages dating from the early 19th century and earlier, located on Lambourne Road in Chigwell. The cottages are timber framed, plastered, and weatherboarded, with roofs made of handmade red clay plain tiles and pantiles. Originally, the cottages formed one block aligned approximately northeast to southwest, with a southeast aspect, featuring a hipped roof and an axial chimney stack near the southwest end. A second chimney stack was added near the northeast end on the front pitch of the roof. There is a rear extension from the northeast end with a chimney stack in the gable end, as well as a single-storey extension with a single-pitch roof beyond.

At the southwest end, there is a parallel range with a central chimney stack and a hipped roof. An extension from the southwest end of the original block includes a chimney stack against the party wall, along with a later parallel range behind it, also with a hipped roof. The cottages are two storeys high.

No. 1, located at the southwest end, features a half-glazed door with a shallow hood, one late 19th-century double-hung sash window with 12 lights, and one 19th-century casement window above. This elevation is set back from the rest and is weatherboarded. No. 2, at the southwest end of the original block, has a half-glazed door in an early 19th-century fluted wooden doorcase, along with one casement window on each floor, which is from the 20th century. No. 3, the next cottage to the northeast, has a similar door and doorcase, with one double-hung sash window of 12 lights on each floor. No. 4, at the southwest end, features a 20th-century glazed door with a simple doorcase that has a shallow bracketed and dentilled hood on scrolled brackets, and one double-hung sash window of 12 lights on each floor.