Castle Cottage

CASTLE COTTAGE

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Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1033365
Date first listed:
10-Dec-1998
List Entry Name:
Castle Cottage
Statutory Address:
CASTLE COTTAGE

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1033365
Date first listed:
10-Dec-1998
List Entry Name:
Castle Cottage
Statutory Address 1:
CASTLE COTTAGE

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.

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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.

Understanding list entries

Corrections and minor amendments

Location

Statutory Address:
CASTLE COTTAGE

The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.

District:
County of Herefordshire (Unitary Authority)
Parish:
Kings Caple
National Grid Reference:
SO 56171 28603

Details

SO 52 NE KINGS CAPLE

1861/3/10003 Castle Cottage

II

House and outbuilding. Circa late C17; extended circa early C19. Timber-framed with plastered wattle infilling, extended in local sandstone rubble. Steeply pitched asbestos tile roof with gabled ends. Stone rubble gable-end stack with red brick shaft. PLAN: Small 1-room plan house with gable-end stack on right. Outbuilding added on left, the ground floor open at rear; the loft above extends the attic accommodation of the house. EXTERIOR: 1 storey and attic. Timber box-framing on right with large square plastered panels and later casement; outbuilding on left with blind stone rubble front wall. At rear, the outbuilding to right is open with re-used timber-framing above, under eaves; later outshut on left in front of timber-framing, and central raking dormer. Later outshut on gable end around stack. INTERIOR: House has chamfered floor beams with hollow-step or cyma stops and broad joists. Plank doors. Attic fireplace with simple chimneypiece and C19 iron grate.

Listing NGR: SO5617128603

Legacy

The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.

Legacy System number:
471816
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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