Melton Cottage and Rosebank Cottage

MELTON COTTAGE, MAIN STREET

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Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1040224
Date first listed:
25-Jan-1988
List Entry Name:
Melton Cottage and Rosebank Cottage
Statutory Address:
MELTON COTTAGE, MAIN STREET

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Date:
2003-04-29
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Official list entry

Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1040224
Date first listed:
25-Jan-1988
List Entry Name:
Melton Cottage and Rosebank Cottage
Statutory Address 1:
MELTON COTTAGE, MAIN STREET
Statutory Address 2:
ROSEBANK COTTAGE, MAIN STREET

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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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Corrections and minor amendments

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:
MELTON COTTAGE, MAIN STREET
Statutory Address:
ROSEBANK COTTAGE, MAIN STREET

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

District:
North Northamptonshire (Unitary Authority)
Parish:
Glapthorn
National Grid Reference:
TL0219290259

Details

TL0290
16/89

GLAPTHORN
MAIN STREET
(South side)
Melton Cottage and Rosebank Cottage

GV
II

House now 2 dwellings. Probably late C17 and mid C18. Squared coursed and
regular coursed limestone with thatch roof. Originally probably 2-unit lobby
entry plan then 4 units. Single storey with attic. 5-window range of C19 style
casements under wood lintels. 2 similar casements, to attic, one under eyebrow
dormers. C20 casement, under eaves, to left. C20 door, with lean-to hood, to
left of centre. 2 bays to left, now forming Rosebank Cottage, break forward and
are probably of a later build. Brick and stone stacks at ridge. Entrance to
Rosebank Cottage is in C20 extension to rear. Interiors not inspected but noted
as having open fireplaces, with bressumers, and ceiling beams.
(RCHM: An Inventory of Architectural Monuments in North Northamptonshire: p79)

Listing NGR: TL0219290259

Legacy

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

Legacy System number:
232644
Legacy System:
LBS

Sources

Other
Inventory of Architectural Monuments in North Northamptonshire, (1984)

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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