Croft Cottage

CROFT COTTAGE, COTTONS LANE

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Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1081667
Date first listed:
02-Dec-1986
List Entry Name:
Croft Cottage
Statutory Address:
CROFT COTTAGE, COTTONS LANE
North gable from Cottons Lane.
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Date:
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Official list entry

Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1081667
Date first listed:
02-Dec-1986
List Entry Name:
Croft Cottage
Statutory Address 1:
CROFT COTTAGE, COTTONS 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.

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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:
CROFT COTTAGE, COTTONS LANE

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

County:
Worcestershire
District:
Wychavon (District Authority)
Parish:
Ashton under Hill
National Grid Reference:
SO 99555 38300

Details

ASHTON UNDER HILL CP COTTONS LANE (south side) SO 9838 - 9938 7/16 Croft Cottage GV II

House. Early C17, restored and extended mid- to late C20. Timber-framed with rendered infill on limestone rubble base with limestone rubble end walling and thatched roof. Two framed bays aligned north/south; external rubble chimney with offsets and brick stack at south end. Single storey and attic with dormers. Framing: three panels from sill to wall-plate, short solid upper corner braces and collar and tie-beam trusses at ends, south end one has two collars with two struts to lower and one strut to upper collar, north end one has two struts to single collar and V-struts in apex. East front elevation: windows are all C20 leaded casements. On the ground floor are three 2-light windows and there are two eyebrow dormers with 3-light windows. Main entrance to left of north bay has a thatched porch (the thatch continuing down from the main roof) on timber posts and a glazed C20 door. There is a possible original cambered doorhead in the south bay. Interior not inspected. C20 single-storey addition to south end and to rear right.

Listing NGR: SO9955538300

Legacy

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Legacy System number:
148468
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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