Yew Tops Cottage

YEW TOPS COTTAGE, 65 AND 67, MAIN STREET

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Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1071831
Date first listed:
02-May-1968
List Entry Name:
Yew Tops Cottage
Statutory Address:
YEW TOPS COTTAGE, 65 AND 67, MAIN STREET
Yew Tops Cottage. Numbers 65 and 67 Warton Main Street. Houses, 1674.
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Official list entry

Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1071831
Date first listed:
02-May-1968
Date of most recent amendment:
07-Nov-1983
List Entry Name:
Yew Tops Cottage
Statutory Address 1:
YEW TOPS COTTAGE, 65 AND 67, MAIN STREET

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.

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Corrections and minor amendments

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.

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Location

Statutory Address:
YEW TOPS COTTAGE, 65 AND 67, MAIN STREET

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

County:
Lancashire
District:
Lancaster (District Authority)
Parish:
Warton
National Grid Reference:
SD4987072296

Details

SD 47 SE WARTON MAIN STREET (WEST SIDE)

3/249 No. 65 (Yew Tops Cottage) and
2.5.1968 No. 67
(formerly listed as No 65 and
No 67 (Vicarage Cottage))

II


Houses, 1674. Pebbledashed rubble with steep slate roof. 2-unit central-
entry plan with 3rd unit (No. 65) to the left. Three storeys, with attic to
No. 65. All windows sashed with plain reveals. No. 67 has two on the ground
floor and 3 on the 1st floor. Door has plain reveals and cyma moulded
battlemented lintel 'HH RH 1674'. No. 65 has a window to the left and a door
to the right in a plain stone surround, with two windows on the 1st floor.
Right-hand gable of No 67 has a modern sashed window with glazing bars and
plain reveals on the 1st floor, and a chimney stack with round cap projecting
on stone corbels at 1st floor level. Between Nos. 65 and 67 is another round
chimney cap, with a rectangular cap on the left-hand gable. Later extensions
to the rear.


Listing NGR: SD4987072296

Legacy

The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.

Legacy System number:
182017
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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