The Cottage
THE COTTAGE, 4, SANDY LANE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1057426
- Date first listed:
- 16-Nov-1984
- List Entry Name:
- The Cottage
- Statutory Address:
- THE COTTAGE, 4, SANDY LANE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1057426
- Date first listed:
- 16-Nov-1984
- List Entry Name:
- The Cottage
- Statutory Address 1:
- THE COTTAGE, 4, SANDY LANE
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 COTTAGE, 4, SANDY LANE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Somerset (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Holford
- National Grid Reference:
- ST 17550 40458
Details
ST14SE HOLFORD CP SANDY LANE DODINGTON 6/110 No.4 (The Cottage) -
II
Cottage. C16, altered perhaps C18 and late C20. Partially rendered over red sandstone random rubble, thatched roof, brick stacks right gable end and left of centre. Plan: originally 3 cell and cross passage, now 2 cell with lobby entry. 2 storeys, 3 bays; C20 2-light casements, groundfloor 3-light outer bays, 2-light centre right below wooden lintel and blocked opening to left below larger wooden lintel. Entry at rear. Probably originally a cross passage entrance by 2-light window with original window opening to left. Left return, facade wall breaks off, probably originally extended one bay more. Interior: 2 piers of exposed jointed cruck trusses, approximately 7 metres apart, principal rafter between. Chamfered lintel, slightly arched, to original cross passage fireplace, 4 centred arched chamfered door frame, C20 one to left; chamfered beams with step and runout stops; another 4 centred arch door frame on first floor. The South end wall may have been rebuilt after a fire damaged the third room.
Listing NGR: ST1755040458
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 265157
- 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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