The Ten Cottages
THE TEN COTTAGES, 6-8
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1024399
- Date first listed:
- 21-Apr-1986
- List Entry Name:
- The Ten Cottages
- Statutory Address:
- THE TEN COTTAGES, 6-8
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1024399
- Date first listed:
- 21-Apr-1986
- List Entry Name:
- The Ten Cottages
- Statutory Address 1:
- THE TEN COTTAGES, 6-8
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:
- THE TEN COTTAGES, 6-8
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Warwickshire
- District:
- Stratford-on-Avon (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Wormleighton
- National Grid Reference:
- SP 44909 53662
Details
WORMLEIGHTON SP4453 15/172 Nos.6 to 8 (consecutive), The Ten Cottages
GV II
Corner block of 3 estate cottages. 1848. Probably designed by Edward Blore, for Earl Spencer. Ironstone ashlar, with red brick to rear. Fish scale tile roofs, with slate to rear, have coped gable parapets and kneelers; stone ridge and external stacks; No.6 has C20 brick square shafts. L-plan, with No.6 in wing to right return side. Tudor style. 2 storeys; 3-window range. Shallow projecting gabled bays to left and right. Chamfered Tudor arch doorways to left and right in straight heads with sunk spandrels and ribbed doors. Wood mullioned windows with painted iron lattices, and transoms to ground floor, of 3 lights and 2 lights in centre; first floor windows of 2 lights. Bays and all ground floor openings are chamfered and have hood moulds with alternating block surrounds. Central gabled half-dormer. Gables have shields with Spencer crest and date. No.6 is similar, with bay to right of door, and single-light windows to left. Interiors not inspected. (Buildings of England: Warwickshire, p,483).
Listing NGR: SP4490953662
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 305748
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Pevsner, N, Wedgwood, A, The Buildings of England: Warwickshire, (1966), 483
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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