Bell Cottage
BELL COTTAGE, HIGH STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1023972
- Date first listed:
- 04-Jul-1985
- List Entry Name:
- Bell Cottage
- Statutory Address:
- BELL COTTAGE, HIGH STREET
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1023972
- Date first listed:
- 04-Jul-1985
- List Entry Name:
- Bell Cottage
- Statutory Address 1:
- BELL COTTAGE, HIGH STREET
The scope of legal protection for listed buildings
This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.
Unless the List entry states otherwise, it includes both the structure itself and any object or structure fixed to it (whether inside or outside) as well as any object or structure within the curtilage of the building.
For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.
The scope of legal protection for listed buildings
This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.
Unless the List entry states otherwise, it includes both the structure itself and any object or structure fixed to it (whether inside or outside) as well as any object or structure within the curtilage of the building.
For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.
Location
- Statutory Address:
- BELL COTTAGE, HIGH STREET
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Wiltshire (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Tilshead
- National Grid Reference:
- SU 03411 47922
Details
TILSHEAD HIGH STREET SU 04 NW (south side) 1/281 Bell Cottage II Detached cottage. C16 with Cl7 remodelling. Plastered brick, thatched roof with axial brick stack. Cl7 baffle-entry, formerly open to roof with no chimney in C16. Single-storey and attic, 2 windows. Narrow planked door to right of centre, to right is C19 canted bay window and to left is one 3-light casement. Attic has one eyebrow dormer with 2-light casement. Right return has 2-light casement to attic. Rear has C20 French windows and two eyebrow dormers to attic, one with 2-light casement and one to right with two 2-light casements, attached to right is single-storey C19 brick extension with segmental-headed casements and corrugated-iron roof. Interior has Cl7 inserted first floor with chamfered beams with bar stops, central stack with blocked open fireplaces. Timber-framed partition between left and centre bays. RCHM recorded 3-bay C16 roof with smoke-blacked timbers; two tiers of through purlins with curved wind-bracing to upper tier. An important survival of the open-plan cottage with Cl7remodelling on Salisbury Plain. (Unpublished records of RCHM (England), Salisbury).
Listing NGR: SU0341447919
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 319890
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Legal
This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.
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