Manor Cottages

MANOR COTTAGES

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Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1059194
Date first listed:
25-Feb-1955
List Entry Name:
Manor Cottages
Statutory Address:
MANOR COTTAGES

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Date:
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Official list entry

Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1059194
Date first listed:
25-Feb-1955
Date of most recent amendment:
04-May-1984
List Entry Name:
Manor Cottages
Statutory Address 1:
MANOR COTTAGES

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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.

Understanding list entries

Corrections and minor amendments

Location

Statutory Address:
MANOR COTTAGES

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

District:
Somerset (Unitary Authority)
Parish:
Cothelstone
National Grid Reference:
ST 18116 31805

Details

ST13SE COTHELSTONE CP

3/88 Manor Cottages, (formerly listed as adjacent cottages on West, Manor House)

25.2.55

GV II

Church house, lodgings or detached kitchen wing, now a pair of cottages. Late C15, altered C19 into three cottages, and mid C20 into two. Red sandstone random rubble masonry coped verges, tiled roof, slight overhang, coved stone soffits, wood at North-western end. Two storeys, irregularly placed fenestration with blocked openings, left-hand cottage two C19 casements under brick relieving arches to left of entrance, C20 door, and left of central blocked entrance, in between medieval stone moulded window frame with similar above, blocked mullion window to right, C19 casewnts on either side. Right-hand cottage, entrance C20 door in end bay beneath brick relieving arch with pair of similar C19 windows to left flanking blocked 2.25 wtre wide 4 centred arch opening with relieving arch, two C19 casements above, 2 and 3-light hollow chamfered mullions on right return elevation. Interior: 6 pairs of jointed crucks, one partially visible in the left- hand cottage, right-hand not viewed. The history of this late medieval building is still unclear. (VAG Report, unpublished SRO, October 1983).

Listing NGR: ST1811631805

Legacy

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Legacy System number:
270299
Legacy System:
LBS

Sources

Books and journals
Vernacular Architecture Group Report in October, (1983)

Other
Register of Parks and Gardens of Special Historic Interest in England, Part 46 Wiltshire,

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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