1, 2 and The Thatched Cottage Lower Street

1, 2 and The Thatched Cottage, Lower Street

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Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1046575
Date first listed:
10-Apr-1987
List Entry Name:
1, 2 and The Thatched Cottage Lower Street
Statutory Address:
1, 2 and The Thatched Cottage, Lower Street

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1046575
Date first listed:
10-Apr-1987
Date of most recent amendment:
04-Sept-1987
List Entry Name:
1, 2 and The Thatched Cottage Lower Street
Statutory Address 1:
1, 2 and The Thatched Cottage, Lower 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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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:
1, 2 and The Thatched Cottage, Lower Street

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

County:
Oxfordshire
District:
Cherwell (District Authority)
Parish:
Islip
National Grid Reference:
SP 52891 14082

Details

This list entry was subject to a Minor Amendment on 10 September 2021 to remove superfluous amendment details and to reformat the text to current standards

SP5214
12/81

ISLIP
LOWER STREET (North side)
Nos. 1, 2 and The Thatched Cottage

(Formerly listed as Nos.1, 2 and 3)

II

Row of three cottages. Early C18 and mid/late C18. Coursed limestone rubble with wooden lintels; thatch and plain-tile roofs with rubble and brick gable stacks. Single-unit plans. Two storeys. The Thatched Cottage, to right, is the earliest and has a two-window front with three-light casements and the doorway to left; thatched roof has flanking stacks. Remainder of row, to left, with a lower-pitched tiled roof, has the rear windows of Nos.1 and 2. Entrance front has adjacent plank doors and leaded casements.

Interiors not inspected.

Listing NGR: SP5289114082

Legacy

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

Legacy System number:
243321
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.

Ordnance survey map of 1, 2 and The Thatched Cottage Lower Street

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