LAUREL COTTAGE

LAUREL COTTAGE, SHIREMOOR HILL

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Overview

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1056871
Date first listed:: 18-Dec-1987
List Entry Name:: LAUREL COTTAGE
Statutory Address:: LAUREL COTTAGE, SHIREMOOR HILL

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Date:: 2002-10-04
Reference:: IOE01/08916/17
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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1056871
Date first listed:: 18-Dec-1987
List Entry Name:: LAUREL COTTAGE
Statutory Address 1:: LAUREL COTTAGE, SHIREMOOR HILL

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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This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

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:: LAUREL COTTAGE, SHIREMOOR HILL

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

District:: Somerset (Unitary Authority)
Parish:: Merriott
National Grid Reference:: ST 44615 12920

Details

ST4412 MERRIOTT CP SHIREMOOR HILL (East side) 9/155 Laurel Cottage

GV II

Detached cottage. C16, reshaped early C18. Ham stone roughly cut and squared, ashlar dressings; thatched roof between coped gables; brick end chimney stacks. 'L'-plan: 2 storeys, 3 bays. All 3-light horizontal-bar casement windows with timber lintols except ground floor bay 3, which is a 3-light hollow-chamfer mullioned window in chamfered recess with label. Between bays 2/3 a 6-panel door hung on medium frame in plain opening, under timber and slated hood; single-light chamfered surround window inserted to left. Further casement windows in south gable. At rear, a door with heavy timber shouldered-head frame. Interior not seen, but reported is a cross-passage plan; the interior altered; but chamfered crossbeams with simple runout stops survive; roof frame contains an adapted jointed cruck, and a closed post-and-truss structure with cambered collar. (VAG Report, unpublished SRO, June 1976).

Listing NGR: ST4461512920

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Legacy System number:: 262405
Legacy System:: LBS

Sources

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'Vernacular Architecture Group Report' in March, (1983)

Legal

This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.