Orchard Cottage
ORCHARD COTTAGE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1057185
- Date first listed:
- 19-Apr-1961
- List Entry Name:
- Orchard Cottage
- Statutory Address:
- ORCHARD COTTAGE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1057185
- Date first listed:
- 19-Apr-1961
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 30-Aug-1984
- List Entry Name:
- Orchard Cottage
- Statutory Address 1:
- ORCHARD 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:
- ORCHARD COTTAGE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Somerset (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- East Coker
- National Grid Reference:
- ST5408812290
Details
ST5412
12/124
EAST COKER CP
Orchard Cottage
(formerly listed as one of a Pair of Cottages immediately south of Helyar Arms)
19.4.61
GV II
Cottage, one of a pair. Possibly of C15 origins. Rubble, with brick gable and extension to south; thatched roof; brick
chimney to extension. 2 storeys, 1-bay. 3-light casement window to ground floor, under exposed timber lintel; above an
ovolo-mould casement of 3-light with diamond leaded panes. Entrance door in side gable. Interior not seen, but three
jointed cruck trusses with long tenons and windbracing are reported; also a smoke-blackened wattle and daub partition
in roof. Adjoining on West side Holly Bark (qv), with no obvious division externally. (VAG Report, unpublished SRO,
1976).
Listing NGR: ST5408812290
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 263682
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Vernacular Architecture Group Report in Vernacular Architecture Group Report, (1976)
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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