South Close Cottage and Walls Linking With Southayes Cottage
SOUTH CLOSE COTTAGE AND WALLS LINKING WITH SOUTHAYES COTTAGE, SHEEP STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1088820
- Date first listed:
- 29-Apr-1983
- List Entry Name:
- South Close Cottage and Walls Linking With Southayes Cottage
- Statutory Address:
- SOUTH CLOSE COTTAGE AND WALLS LINKING WITH SOUTHAYES COTTAGE, SHEEP STREET
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- Date:
- 2001-10-17
- Reference:
- IOE01/00737/27
- Rights:
- © Lorna Freeman. Source: Historic England Archive
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1088820
- Date first listed:
- 29-Apr-1983
- List Entry Name:
- South Close Cottage and Walls Linking With Southayes Cottage
- Statutory Address 1:
- SOUTH CLOSE COTTAGE AND WALLS LINKING WITH SOUTHAYES COTTAGE, SHEEP STREET
- Statutory Address 2:
- SOUTH CLOSE COTTAGE AND WALLS LINKING WITH SOUTHAYES COTTAGE, SHEEP 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:
- SOUTH CLOSE COTTAGE AND WALLS LINKING WITH SOUTHAYES COTTAGE, SHEEP STREET
- Statutory Address:
- SOUTH CLOSE COTTAGE AND WALLS LINKING WITH SOUTHAYES COTTAGE, SHEEP STREET
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Gloucestershire
- District:
- Cotswold (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Stow-on-the-Wold
- National Grid Reference:
- SP1910325631
Details
1.
5224 SHEEP STREET
(south side)
South Close Cottage and
walls linking with
Southayes Cottage
SP 1925 NW 2/62
II GV
2.
C16 or early C17 altered mid C19 and modernised. Picturesque rubble built cottage
set back from street and approached by an alleyway (ture) which passes below its
east end and continues to back walls. Two storeys. Cotswold stone roof, plain
chimneys.
Three small 2-light casements on first floor, 4 windows and 2 doors, irregular, on
ground floor (modern). Alley to right ceiled with old timbers.
Gabled L-plan extension to north extends as coach-house to Woolcomber (q.v.).
Interior: lobby entrance, massive chimney with stair attached; one timber framed
exposed partition. Roof with stout coupled rafters, one truss with curved collar;
2 levels of purlins.
The ture walls link this house with Southayes Cottage to north: rubble varying
between 6 and 9 ft.
Listing NGR: SP1910325631
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 126370
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Other
Battlefields Register,
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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