St Mary's Cottage and St Martha's Cottage

ST MARTHA'S COTTAGE, 22, GREAT HALES STREET

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Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1055310
Date first listed:
05-Jun-1987
List Entry Name:
St Mary's Cottage and St Martha's Cottage
Statutory Address:
ST MARTHA'S COTTAGE, 22, GREAT HALES STREET
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Official list entry

Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1055310
Date first listed:
05-Jun-1987
List Entry Name:
St Mary's Cottage and St Martha's Cottage
Statutory Address 1:
ST MARTHA'S COTTAGE, 22, GREAT HALES STREET
Statutory Address 2:
ST MARY'S COTTAGE, 20, GREAT HALES 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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Corrections and minor amendments

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:
ST MARTHA'S COTTAGE, 22, GREAT HALES STREET
Statutory Address:
ST MARY'S COTTAGE, 20, GREAT HALES STREET

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

District:
Shropshire (Unitary Authority)
Parish:
Market Drayton
National Grid Reference:
SJ6770734076

Details

SJ 6634-6734
13/48

MARKET DRAYTON C.P.
GREAT HALES STREET
(south side)
No. 20 (St. Mary's Cottage) and 22 (St. Martha's Cottage)

GV
II

Pair of houses. Mid-to late C18. Painted brick, left-hand end wall
rendered. Plain tile roof. 2 storeys and attic. Painted plinth,
plat band and parapeted gable ends. Central brick ridge stack and
integral brick end stacks. Pair of gabled dormers to right with 2-
light wooden casements and plain barge boards. Right-hand house:
2 windows; wooden cross windows with tiled cills, those on ground floor
with segmental heads. 4 stone steps up to roughly central 6-panelled
door with segmental head. Gabled lattic wooden porch. Cast-iron
bootscraper to left. Left-hand house: 2 bays; first-floor 20-pane
glazing bar sashes, and ground-floor segmental-headed 3-light wooden
casement to left. Door to right with 6 raised and fielded panels and
4-part rectangular overlight with segmental head. Flight of 4 dressed
red/grey sandstone steps at right angles to door with wrought-iron
balustrade consisting of plain railings, twisted standards and plain
rail with curtail. Interiors of houses not inspected.

Listing NGR: SJ6770734076

Legacy

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

Legacy System number:
260352
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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