Lower Cottages
1 AND 2 LOWER COTTAGES, LEIGH ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1055227
- Date first listed:
- 18-Mar-1986
- List Entry Name:
- Lower Cottages
- Statutory Address:
- 1 AND 2 LOWER COTTAGES, LEIGH ROAD
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1055227
- Date first listed:
- 18-Mar-1986
- List Entry Name:
- Lower Cottages
- Statutory Address 1:
- 1 AND 2 LOWER COTTAGES, LEIGH 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:
- 1 AND 2 LOWER COTTAGES, LEIGH ROAD
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Shropshire (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Minsterley
- National Grid Reference:
- SJ 37275 05074
Details
SJ 3605-3705 MINSTERLEY C.P. LEIGH ROAD (North- west side)
19/77 Nos. 1 and 2 Lower - Cottages
GV II
Shown on O.S. map as Stall Cottage and No. 2 (Lower House). House, now divided. Probably early C17, remodelled and probably extended in the mid-to late C19. Timber framed, partly rebuilt or refaced and extended in coursed rubblestone with red brick dressings, pebbledashed to left; right-hand gable end of red brick; plain tile roof. 2 framed bays with later one-room additions at each end. One storey and attic. Large central brick ridge stack and integral brick end stack to left; 2 large gabled eaves dormers with 3-light wooden casements. 4-window front; two C20 two-light segmental-headed casements to left flanking C20 half-glazed door, and C19 two- and 3-light segmental-headed wooden casements flanking boarded door to right. Interior of right-hand cottage: ground-floor room with deep-chamfered beam, plain joists and large open fireplace with ogee-stopped chamfered beam and mantlepiece; jowls of posts visible in attic room; collar and cambered tie-beam trusses with queen struts and v-struts; pairs of purlins with wind braces.
Listing NGR: SJ3727505074
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 258983
- 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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