Crossing Cottage
Crossing Cottage, Oswestry Road
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1054191
- Date first listed:
- 02-Sept-1987
- List Entry Name:
- Crossing Cottage
- Statutory Address:
- Crossing Cottage, Oswestry Road
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1054191
- Date first listed:
- 02-Sept-1987
- List Entry Name:
- Crossing Cottage
- Statutory Address 1:
- Crossing Cottage, Oswestry Road
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:
- Crossing Cottage, Oswestry Road
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Shropshire (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Whittington
- National Grid Reference:
- SJ 32078 31106
Details
SJ 3231-3331
11/130
WHITTINGTON CP
OSWESTRY ROAD (north side)
Crossing Cottage
GV
II
Level-crossing keeper's cottage. Circa 1848 with later additions and alterations. Roughly coursed limestone rubble with angle quoins; slate roof with fretted bargeboards and pointed finials. Cruciform plan; Tudor Gothic style. Two storeys. Cast-iron latticed casements, one on each floor to left gable and in canted bay to ground floor of centre gable with two-light window above. Entrance in angle between left and centre gables; four-centred arch with hollow spandrels and ledged and braced door. Central red brick ridge stack with top rebuilt in late C19 brick. Included for group value.
Oswestry Road is shown as Whittington Road on OS map.
Listing NGR: SJ3207831106
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 255846
- 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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