Manor Cottage
MANOR COTTAGE, BARFORD LANE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1024018
- Date first listed:
- 05-Feb-1991
- List Entry Name:
- Manor Cottage
- Statutory Address:
- MANOR COTTAGE, BARFORD LANE
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- Date:
- 2001-06-30
- Reference:
- IOE01/05391/16
- Rights:
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1024018
- Date first listed:
- 05-Feb-1991
- List Entry Name:
- Manor Cottage
- Statutory Address 1:
- MANOR COTTAGE, BARFORD LANE
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:
- MANOR COTTAGE, BARFORD LANE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Wiltshire (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Downton
- National Grid Reference:
- SU 18061 21694
Details
The following buildings shall be added to the list:
DOWNTON OFF BARFORD LANE SU 1821 (west side) 6/325 Manor Cottage
GV II
Cottage. Circa mid to late C17 with C18 and C19 alterations and additions. Timber-framed, faced in red brick, lower courses are random bond with Flemish bond above. Plain tile roof with gabled and half-hipped ends. End stacks with brick shafts. L-shaped on plan. 2-room plan front range, left hand wing behind the right hand room appears to be of adifferent build either later or earlier and later faced in brick. Circa early C19 outshut behind left room. One storey and attic. 2 window east front. Circa early C20 2 and 3-light casements, attic windows in small hipped dormers above eaves. Doorway to right inside C20 conservatory-porch. Large C20 raking brick buttress at centre of front. Roof at rear carried down as catslide over brick outshut. Lower rear wing with half-hipped roof. C20 metal-frame casements and hipped dormer on north side. Interior: Exposed timber-framed partition between 2 rooms in front range, the tie on jowled wall-post at back. Both rooms have thin chamfered beams with convex stops, the left axial, the right hand a cross-beam. The left room has large fireplace with chamfered timber lintel, the chamfer running into jambs, and brick-lined oven. The right hand room has simple C19 chimneypiece and winder staircase in rear corner against partition. Rear wing has large chamfered axial beam with run-out stops. Roof space ceiled.
Listing NGR: SU1805921692
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 319803
- 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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