Candida Cottage
CANDIDA COTTAGE, 39, HIGH STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1040938
- Date first listed:
- 15-Mar-1988
- List Entry Name:
- Candida Cottage
- Statutory Address:
- CANDIDA COTTAGE, 39, HIGH STREET
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1040938
- Date first listed:
- 15-Mar-1988
- List Entry Name:
- Candida Cottage
- Statutory Address 1:
- CANDIDA COTTAGE, 39, HIGH STREET
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:
- CANDIDA COTTAGE, 39, HIGH STREET
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- West Northamptonshire (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Roade
- National Grid Reference:
- SP 75677 51664
Details
SP 7550 ROADE HIGH STREET (South side) 11/137 No 39 (Candida Cottage)
II
Cottage. Mid-late C17, renovated c.1917 possibly by Charles Rennie Mackintosh for W J Bassett-Lowke with later C20 alterations. Coursed limestone rubble C20 plain-tile roof replacing thatch and brick end stacks. 2-unit plan. 2-storey, 3-window range. Plank door to right of centre with small triangular leaded light and wood lintel, in later C20 gabled stone porch. 2-light casement window to ground and 1st floor right, 4-light casement to ground floor left, 3-light casement to 1st floor left of centre. All have wood lintels and small leaded panes. C20 stylights. Old single-storey extension to left, altered C20. Single storey extension to right built as loggia for Bassett-lowke, of coursed rubble with flat concrete roof and concrete lintles to opening to front and narrower openings either side of door to right side elevation. Access to flat roof is provided by double-leaf 'French window' with wood lintel to 1st floor right gable end. Orginal plain stone coped parapet of loggia has been altered and is no longer continuous and openings have been glazed. Interior: bar-stop-chamfered spine beams and open fireplace with chamfered bressumer. Fire canopy and basket and candle-holders to piers of fireplace survive from Bassett-Lowke period. Glazed screen enclosing dog leg staircase also dates from same period. Fire window to inglenook and window beside hall fireplace have triangular heads and are characteristic of the style of C R Mackintosh. Hall and loggia have red and black tiled floors. At the time of its purchase in 1914 by W J Barrett-Lowke for a country retreat, the cottage was divided into two. It was restored as a single cottage possible by C R Mackintosh who designed furniture for the cottage now in Brighton Art Gallery and Museum. (Ideal Home 'Ancient and Modern' October 1920 (article on Candida Cottage furniture' Brighton Museums and Art Gallery (no date)
Listing NGR: SP7567751664
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 234954
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Ideal Home in October, (1920)
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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