Whitehouse Cottage

WHITEHOUSE COTTAGE, HOLLY LANE

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Overview

Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1037846
Date first listed:
20-Nov-1987
List Entry Name:
Whitehouse Cottage
Statutory Address:
WHITEHOUSE COTTAGE, HOLLY LANE

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1037846
Date first listed:
20-Nov-1987
List Entry Name:
Whitehouse Cottage
Statutory Address 1:
WHITEHOUSE COTTAGE, HOLLY 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.

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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:
WHITEHOUSE COTTAGE, HOLLY LANE

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

County:
Staffordshire
District:
Staffordshire Moorlands (District Authority)
Parish:
Biddulph
National Grid Reference:
SJ 87870 58066

Details

BIDDULPH C.P. HOLLY LANE SJ 85 NE 7/31 Whitehouse Cottage - - II

Cottage. Late C15, altered mid-C19 and C20. Timber frame on sandstone plinth; wattle and daub and painted brick infill; Norfolk reed roof. Single storey and attic. 3-framed-bay front of 4 windows; C20 casement windows, 2 dormers with thatch swept over, to first floor left and centre bays; square-panel framing; higher wall plate to right-hand bay, plinth stepped down to left of centre bay (formerly entrance). Interior: 3 cruck truss frames, slightly curved blades, apices not visible, running from centre bay to left end; large firehood and ovolo-moulded spine beam to centre bay; steps down to left bay with plain chamfered beam ceiling; straight windbraces to roof construction. Developed from open hall and downhouse with C17 (originally ceiled) bay added to right, C20 additions to sides and rear.

Listing NGR: SJ8787058066

Legacy

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

Legacy System number:
275237
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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