Rookery Cottage
ROOKERY COTTAGE, HIGH STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1087770
- Date first listed:
- 09-Jan-1967
- List Entry Name:
- Rookery Cottage
- Statutory Address:
- ROOKERY COTTAGE, HIGH STREET
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- Date:
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- Reference:
- IOE01/00835/34
- Rights:
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1087770
- Date first listed:
- 09-Jan-1967
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 07-Jul-1989
- List Entry Name:
- Rookery Cottage
- Statutory Address 1:
- ROOKERY COTTAGE, HIGH 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.
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.
Location
- Statutory Address:
- ROOKERY COTTAGE, HIGH STREET
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Derbyshire
- District:
- North East Derbyshire (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Dronfield
- National Grid Reference:
- SK 35021 78514
Details
PARISH OF DRONFIELD HIGH STREET SK 37 NE 6/43 (North Side) Rookery Cottage 9.1.67 (formerly listed as the Armoury or Rookery Cottage) GV II House. Mid C17 with C20 alterations. Coursed rubble coal measures sandstone with quoins, coped gables with moulded kneelers. Single gable stack, rebuilt C20 and a stone slated roof. East elevation. Two storeys, three bays, with advanced porch to north end, covered by a catslide roof, and inserted doorway beneath a plain lintel and with a C20 door. Second inserted doorway to south end, beneath a plain lintel and with C20 door. To the north of this door, a 2 and a 3-light recessed chamfer mullioned window, both beneath dripmoulds, that to the 3-light window extending onto and around the advanced porch. First floor with two 2-light chamfer mullioned windows, the mullions C20 replacements. C20 leaded lights throughout. South gable has stacked 2-light chamfer mullioned windows, including attic light, beneath dripmoulds. At the south-west corner the remains of a massive quoined doorway, now with only the south-east quoins remaining and half of the lintel. The corner itself is not quoined.
Listing NGR: SK3502178514
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 79523
- 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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