Tulip Cottage, Manor Cottage and Higleys Cottage
HIGLEYS COTTAGE, B4030
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1052797
- Date first listed:
- 30-Aug-1988
- List Entry Name:
- Tulip Cottage, Manor Cottage and Higleys Cottage
- Statutory Address:
- HIGLEYS COTTAGE, B4030
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1052797
- Date first listed:
- 30-Aug-1988
- List Entry Name:
- Tulip Cottage, Manor Cottage and Higleys Cottage
- Statutory Address 1:
- HIGLEYS COTTAGE, B4030
- Statutory Address 2:
- MANOR COTTAGE, B4030
- Statutory Address 3:
- TULIP COTTAGE, B4030
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:
- HIGLEYS COTTAGE, B4030
- Statutory Address:
- MANOR COTTAGE, B4030
- Statutory Address:
- TULIP COTTAGE, B4030
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Oxfordshire
- District:
- West Oxfordshire (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Enstone
- National Grid Reference:
- SP3801324988
Details
ENSTONE B4030
SP32SE (South side)
Church Enstone
8/29 Tulip Cottage, Manor Cottage
and Higleys Cottage
GV II
3 small houses, probably formerly one or 2 dwellings. C17, C19 and C20.
Limestone rubble with wooden lintels; Stonesfield-slate and concrete plain-tile
roofs with rubble stacks. L-shaped range. 2 storeys plus attics. Tulip Cottage,
in range projecting towards road, has a rectangular stair projection with a
small leaded casement. Manor Cottage, in the angle of,the ranges, has renewed
casements but retains an old plank door under a stone-slated canopy. Higley's
Cottage, in the right half of the rear range, has a small-pane casement and a
doorway, both in the lower section to right of the stack; a further
single-storey section on the end of, the range is probably C19, and is built as a
grotto with an archway (now glazed) and several recesses. Steep-pitched roofs to
both ranges have a total of 4 stacks. C19 and C20 extensions project to left of
front range. Interiors: stop-chamfered beans; open fireplaces. Noted as formerly
having the date 1668 on a door. The vermiculated stonework of the grotto may
have been taken from Thomas Bushell's famous waterworks at Neat Enstone.
Listing NGR: SP3801324988
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 253210
- 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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