Westend Cottage

WESTEND COTTAGE, A 44

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Overview

Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1082028
Date first listed:
11-Jun-1959
List Entry Name:
Westend Cottage
Statutory Address:
WESTEND COTTAGE, A 44

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1082028
Date first listed:
11-Jun-1959
List Entry Name:
Westend Cottage
Statutory Address 1:
WESTEND COTTAGE, A 44

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.

Understanding list entries

Corrections and minor amendments

Location

Statutory Address:
WESTEND COTTAGE, A 44

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

District:
County of Herefordshire (Unitary Authority)
Parish:
Docklow and Hampton Wafer
National Grid Reference:
SO 57021 57977

Details

DOCKLOW CP AND off A 44 (north side) SO 55 NE DOCKLOW (DET) DEP 3/52 Westend Cottage 11.6.59 II House. Late C14 origins, largely rebuilt circa 1700 with further mid-C19 alterations. Coursed sandstone rubble, formerly rendered with some internal timber framing and asbestos slate roofs. Main two-bay range aligned roughly east/west with external rubble chimneys and rebuilt C19 brick stacks at east end and rear west bay. Single-bay range, lower in height at west end, also with external chimney at west end and lean-to rubble bread oven. Two storeys, attic and cellar with two-course band between storeys of main range. South front elevation:main range has two ground and first floor C19 casements with timber lintels. Single-bay part has a 2-light C19 Casement on both floors (ground floor one has a timber lintel) and the main entrance which has a moulded architrave and ledged and battened door. Attic lights in gable ends. Entrance to cellar at rear of main range. Interior: single-bay part retains a complete cruck truss with a chamfered arch-braced collar and, above the collar, cusped raking struts. Main range has timber-framed central partition with some lath and plaster infill, stop-chamfered main ceiling beams. Single-bay part has a chamfered cross-beamed ceiling and two ovens in chimney. (RCHM, Herefs, III, p 44, item 5; BoE, p 19; Alcock, Dr N: CBA Cruck Catalogue, 1981).

Listing NGR: SO5702157977

Legacy

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

Legacy System number:
149615
Legacy System:
LBS

Sources

Books and journals
Inventory of Herefordshire III North West, (1934)
Pevsner, N, The Buildings of England: Herefordshire, (1963)
Alcock, N W, Council for British Archaeology Research Report in Cruck Construction An Introduction And Catalogue, (1981)

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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