Gable Cottage

GABLE COTTAGE, 32, MAIN STREET

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Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1074647
Date first listed:
01-Jun-1966
List Entry Name:
Gable Cottage
Statutory Address:
GABLE COTTAGE, 32, MAIN STREET
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Official list entry

Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1074647
Date first listed:
01-Jun-1966
List Entry Name:
Gable Cottage
Statutory Address 1:
GABLE COTTAGE, 32, 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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Corrections and minor amendments

Location

Statutory Address:
GABLE COTTAGE, 32, MAIN STREET

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

County:
Leicestershire
District:
Charnwood (District Authority)
Parish:
Newtown Linford
National Grid Reference:
SK 51915 09909

Details

NEWTOWN LINFORD MAIN STREET SK 50 NW (South West Side) 5/54 No. 32 (Gable Cottage) 1.6.66 GV II Cottage of C16/early C17. Square panelled timber framing, herringbone and other red brick nogging, part granite & slate rubble stone plinth and walling, and Swithland slate roof with rebuilt ridge and end stacks. Two storeys to left, gable facing, 1 storey centre and 1½ right, gable facing. Left gable 4 x 4 panels with 2 2-light casements 1st floor and casements left end. Return of 3 panels with 5-light and 2-light casement above. Diagonal 2-light casment in corner. Centre of 5 panels and door, with 1-light and 3-light casements and dormer above. 3 panel right gable with 3-light casement in attic. Doors and casements to rear with part stone walling and part of cruck frame visible. Inside chamfered beams and massive rafters. An exceptionally picturesque, well preserved, and unrestored example of the local architecture of the time.

Listing NGR: SK5191509909

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Legacy System number:
189106
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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