The Thatched Cottage
THE THATCHED COTTAGE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1056297
- Date first listed:
- 24-Mar-1961
- List Entry Name:
- The Thatched Cottage
- Statutory Address:
- THE THATCHED COTTAGE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1056297
- Date first listed:
- 24-Mar-1961
- List Entry Name:
- The Thatched Cottage
- Statutory Address 1:
- THE THATCHED COTTAGE
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:
- THE THATCHED COTTAGE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Somerset (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Milborne Port
- National Grid Reference:
- ST 66958 18944
Details
ST6618 MILBORNE PORT CP NEWTOWN (North side)
11/179 The Thatched Cottage
24.3.61
GV II
Cottage, formerly row of 3. Early C19, modifield. Local stone cut and squared, rendered at East end; thatched, with half hipped gables; octagonal brick chimney stacks with mitred angles; 2 storeys, 4 bays. Casement windows with leaded lights; to bay 1 a 4-light below and 3-lights above, both with segmental arched heads; to bay 2 a 1+2+1 light flat roofed bay window below and 2-light casement with gauged brickwork flat arch above: C20 boarded door in recess spanned by timber lintol to bay 3, above which is a 2 light window set into the rendering: 4-light casements to bay 4, the lower with toplights. Thatched single-storey-with-attic extension on West gable; the attic window an early C19 leaded casement. Interior not seen. Newtown is a planned layout, of c1818, with originally some 80 thatched cottages: it is said to have originated as a vote-catching scheme.
Listing NGR: ST6695818944
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 261916
- 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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