Castle Cottage
CASTLE COTTAGE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1060464
- Date first listed:
- 17-May-1985
- List Entry Name:
- Castle Cottage
- Statutory Address:
- CASTLE COTTAGE
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- Reference:
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1060464
- Date first listed:
- 17-May-1985
- List Entry Name:
- Castle Cottage
- Statutory Address 1:
- CASTLE 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:
- CASTLE COTTAGE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Somerset (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Norton Fitzwarren
- National Grid Reference:
- ST 20098 26963
Details
ST22NW NORTON FITZWARREN CP LANGFORD
5/143 Castle Cottage
II
Cottage. Late medieval, altered C16 and C17. Roughcast over cob and rubble, thatched roof hipped to left, brick stack right gable end and left of cross passage. Plan: open hall, internal jetty inserted, ceiled to 3 ceil and cross passage, One and a half storeys, late C19 early C20 casements, 3-light dormer left in roof space with double Roman tiled sill, ground floor 2 and 3-light casements left of entrance, single storeys triple Roman tiled one bay extension right, recessed C20 plank Door. Interior not seen. Notable for exposed internal jetty at upper end; also said to contain franked partitions, depressed 4 centre arched doorway to inner room, chamfered beams with step and runout stops, moulded lintel to cross passage fireplace, roof trusses partly rebuilt. (VAG Report, unpublished SRO, 1980; SANHS Proccedings, Vol 126, 1982).
Listing NGR: ST2009826963
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 270651
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Vernacular Architecture Group Report in Vernacular Architecture Group Report, (1980)
Proceedings of the Somerset Archaeological and Natural History Society in Proceedings of the Somerset Archaeological and Natural History Society, Vol. 126, (1982)
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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