Watery Lane Cottage
WATERY LANE COTTAGE, WATERY LANE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1092443
- Date first listed:
- 04-Oct-1989
- List Entry Name:
- Watery Lane Cottage
- Statutory Address:
- WATERY LANE COTTAGE, WATERY LANE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1092443
- Date first listed:
- 04-Oct-1989
- List Entry Name:
- Watery Lane Cottage
- Statutory Address 1:
- WATERY LANE COTTAGE, WATERY LANE
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:
- WATERY LANE COTTAGE, WATERY LANE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Hampshire
- District:
- Basingstoke and Deane (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Highclere
- National Grid Reference:
- SU 44852 61173
Details
SU 46 SW HIGHCLERE (PENWOOD) WATERY LANE
1/10 Watery Lane Cottage
II
House. Probably 1st half C17; altered C18, c1800, mid C19 and early C20. Timber frame with wattle and daub infill, tile-hung on entrance elevation, rear and left return having ground floor underbuilt in flint with brick dressings, the 1st floor of rear with brick infill and of left return tile hung; mid-C19 addition of pinkish brick in Flemish garden wall bond (2 stretchers, 1 header), tile-hung at front. Plain tile roofs. Brick stacks. 1½ storey 2-bay original range with lobby-entry plan; single-storey l-bay addition on right. Entrance elevation: on right of original range, board door masked by C19 gabled brick porch with basket-arched opening and band of fishscale tiles to roof; to its left a C19 2-light small-paned metal casement window, the upper panes ogee-arched; above this and early-C20, 2-light, 8-pane, casement window set above eaves under gablet; ridge stack in line with porch; roof half-hipped at left end and at right end of added bay. Rear: projecting at left end of original range is probably C18 semi-circular brick bread oven with tile roof; to its right a C20 2-light small-pane casement window with window above as front; a 6-pane window to right bay; a stack rises from near eaves between windows. Left return: board door on left; a C20 2-light window to each floor. Interior: full-height wattle and daub partition between left-hand bays; parts of the timber frame exposed; on ground floor chamfered beams, that in central bay having stepped triangle and cyma stops; on 1st floor wide floorboards, cambered tie-beam at original right-hand end, eaves plate and straight wind braces. In state of disrepair at time of inspection.
Listing NGR: SU4424960707
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 138318
- 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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