The Cottage

THE COTTAGE

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Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1055341
Date first listed:
10-Feb-1959
List Entry Name:
The Cottage
Statutory Address:
THE COTTAGE

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1055341
Date first listed:
10-Feb-1959
List Entry Name:
The Cottage
Statutory Address 1:
THE COTTAGE

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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.

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Corrections and minor amendments

Location

Statutory Address:
THE COTTAGE

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

District:
Shropshire (Unitary Authority)
Parish:
Hodnet
National Grid Reference:
SJ6127828670

Details

HODNET C.P.
HODNET

SJ 6028-6128
13/65
10.2.59

The Cottage

GV
II

House. Mid- and late C16 (porch dated 1546) with mid-C17 additions.
Timber framed with painted brick nogging on roughly dressed red sandstone
plinth. C20 machine tile roofs. Framing: square panels (3 and 4 from
wall plate to ground plate) with corner braces. Porch with closely-
spaced studs and middle rails, C16 hall range of 2 framed bays, C17
projecting gabled cross wing to right of 2 framed bays, and C16 porch
in angle. One storey and attic over basement with 2-storey porch.
C19 external brick end stack to right of hall range with 4 circular
shafts and C19 external lateral brick-stack at rear with 2 circular
shafts. Raking semi-dormer off-centre to left, altered in mid-C20.
3:1:2 window front; C20 two- and 3-light wooden casements with C20
stepped wooden cills. Timber framed gabled porch consisting of jetted
first floor with moulded bressumer (dated 1546) on shaped brackets and
jettied gable with roll-moulded bressumer on shaped brackets and parallel
diagonal framing. C20 nail-studded boarded door. Collar and
tie-beam end trusses with queen struts and V-struts. One post at rear
of hall range with scotch. Timber framed and brick lean-to at rear
with 6-panelled door. Interior not inspected but chamfered spine beams
noted in cross wing and the owner (April 1986) reports some panelling in
the cross wing and a winder stair.

Listing NGR: SJ6127828670

Legacy

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

Legacy System number:
260219
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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