Chestnut Cottage

CHESTNUT COTTAGE

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Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1082468
Date first listed:
31-Oct-1988
List Entry Name:
Chestnut Cottage
Statutory Address:
CHESTNUT COTTAGE
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Official list entry

Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1082468
Date first listed:
31-Oct-1988
List Entry Name:
Chestnut Cottage
Statutory Address 1:
CHESTNUT COTTAGE

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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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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:
CHESTNUT COTTAGE

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

District:
County of Herefordshire (Unitary Authority)
Parish:
Willersley and Winforton
National Grid Reference:
SO 30059 47040

Details

WINFORTON CP WINFORTON SP 34 NW 6/122 Chestnut Cottage - II House, formerly divided into two houses. Probably early C17, partly rebuilt circa 1700 with mid-C19 and mid-C20 alterations and additions. Timber-framed with rendered infill on rubble base, partly rendered and roughcast with slate roofs. One plus two framed bays aligned east/west; external rubble chimney at east end, with tiled offsets, and also C19 external brick chimney with rebuilt stack at west end. Single storey and attic with dormer. Framing: single-bay part has 2½ panels from sill to wall-plate and a collar and tie-beam truss with struts exposed at the west gable end. Two-bay part (probable circa 1700 rebuilding) has three panels from sill to wall-plate and is constructed of scantling timber. No trusses exposed. South front elevation: windows are C19 casements. Single-bay part has a 3-light and a 2-light ground floor window. Two-bay part has a 3-light and a single-light ground floor window, a gabled dormer with 2-light window, and the main entrance which has a C19 ledged and battened door and a plank weathering (continued above the ground floor windows). C20 single-storey flat-roofed extension at rear. Interior: stop-chamfered main ceiling beam in east bay.

Listing NGR: SO3005947040

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Legacy System number:
150677
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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