Burcott Cottage Cobblers Cottage Post Office and Stores

BURCOTT COTTAGE, A44

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Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1081910
Date first listed:
20-Feb-1953
List Entry Name:
Burcott Cottage Cobblers Cottage Post Office and Stores
Statutory Address:
BURCOTT COTTAGE, A44
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Official list entry

Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1081910
Date first listed:
20-Feb-1953
Date of most recent amendment:
10-Nov-1987
List Entry Name:
Burcott Cottage Cobblers Cottage Post Office and Stores
Statutory Address 1:
BURCOTT COTTAGE, A44
Statutory Address 2:
COBBLERS COTTAGE, A44
Statutory Address 3:
POST OFFICE AND STORES, A44

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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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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.

Understanding list entries

Corrections and minor amendments

Location

Statutory Address:
BURCOTT COTTAGE, A44
Statutory Address:
COBBLERS COTTAGE, A44
Statutory Address:
POST OFFICE AND STORES, A44

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

District:
County of Herefordshire (Unitary Authority)
Parish:
Eardisland
National Grid Reference:
SO 41828 58505

Details

SO 4058 - 4158 EARISLAND CP A 44 (south side) Eardisland

11/60 Post Office and Stores, 20.2.53 The Burcott and Cobblers Cottage (formerly listed as Burcott Cottages)

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Three houses. C17, with some late C18, mid-C19 and late C20 alterations. Timber-frame with painted brick and rendered infill on a coursed rubble plinth under a slate roof. H-plan, main range aligned north/south containing The Burcott, Cobblers Cottage to north cross-wing, Post Office to south. Main stack in angle between north cross-wing and main range is of rubble with an oven and a brick shaft. A further small wing extends to south from south-west corner of south cross-wing. West front of two storeys to centre (raised in C18) with cross-wings of one storey with attics lit by 2-light casements in the gable ends. First floor has two 2-light casements. Ground floor has a 2-light casement to left under a plank weathering; to the centre a 3-light casement on left and a canted bay window with slate roof to right. Right-hand cross-wing has a fixed window. Three entrances, that to the left has a half-glazed porch with two-leaf door, to centre a four-panel door under a lean-to tiled canopy and to right a ledged and boarded door. Further wing to right of two storeys with a 2-light casement over a 3-light casement. Framing: three rectangular panels, the central range with straight angle braces. The gable trusses have two struts to the collar with V-struts in apex.

Listing NGR: SO4182858505

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Legacy System number:
149842
Legacy System:
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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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