County Cottage
COUNTY COTTAGE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1036394
- Date first listed:
- 01-Jul-1986
- List Entry Name:
- County Cottage
- Statutory Address:
- COUNTY COTTAGE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1036394
- Date first listed:
- 01-Jul-1986
- List Entry Name:
- County Cottage
- Statutory Address 1:
- COUNTY 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.
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:
- COUNTY COTTAGE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Wiltshire (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Horningsham
- National Grid Reference:
- ST 79945 43242
Details
HORNINGSHAM LONGLEAT PARK ST 74 SE (west side) 2/145 County Cottage
GV II
Part in Selwood CP, Somerset. Cottage orne. 1803 by Jeffry Wyatville for 2nd Marquess of Bath. Coursed rubble stone, hipped thatched roof, pair of diagonally set ashlar stacks. Cross plan, two of the arms are three-sided. Single storey and attic, 2- windowed; casements; Tudor-arched doorway under thatched canopy on rustic posts, C20 planked door, two cross window with hoodmoulds to right, 2-light recessed chamfered mullioned casement and pointed lancet to first floor, gables with wavy barge boards. Left return has C20 steel casement and cross window with hoodmould. Right return has 1-light hollow-chamfered casement to left, gabled projecting bay to centre has cross window to ground floor and 2- light recessed chamfered mullioned casement with hoodmould to first floor, wavy barge boards. Rear has flat-roofed C20 extension and 2-light casement to gabled dormer. Interior not accessible at time of survey (June 1985). Situated along the west drive to Longleat House, astride the County boundary of Wiltshire and Somerset.
Listing NGR: ST7994543242
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 313366
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Other
Register of Parks and Gardens of Special Historic Interest in England, Part 46 Wiltshire,
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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