Beacon Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Maldon local planning authority area, England. First listed on 8 August 1985. House.
Beacon Cottage
- WRENN ID
- crumbling-trefoil-cream
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Maldon
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 8 August 1985
- Type
- House
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
LITTLE BRAXTED
464/0/10004 BRAXTED ROAD 17-SEP-03 Beacon Cottage
GV II Former gardener's cottage, now house. 1903. Arthur Heygate Mackmurdo (1851-1942) for G.W. Taylor. Brick and rough cast with hipped tile roof. 2-storeys, double-pile with central entrance and scullery range to rear. ELEVATION: Symmetrical facade has wide, advanced porch with arched opening flanked by 2-light windows, canted return to each side with single lights, all under shallow hipped roof. Entrance of narrow door, with 2-light window to centre at first floor. Roof flares upwards slightly at base. Pair of corbelled brick chimneys along ridge. Rear scullery range has hipped tile roof. All windows replaced in later-C20 but in original openings. INTERIOR: Main room to each side of central hall with stick baluster and chamfered newel stair. HISTORY: Built as the gardener's cottage to 1902-3 Beacons (q.v.), with which it has group value. SOURCE: Signed drawings in Essex Record Office D/RMa/Pb2/257
A small gardener's cottage to Beacons (q.v.), both of which were designed by the important Arts and Crafts Architect A.H. Mackmurdo.
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