End Cottage Middle Cottage Wheatsheaf Cottage
END COTTAGE, FREE STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1095697
- Date first listed:
- 06-Mar-1967
- List Entry Name:
- End Cottage Middle Cottage Wheatsheaf Cottage
- Statutory Address:
- END COTTAGE, FREE STREET
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1095697
- Date first listed:
- 06-Mar-1967
- List Entry Name:
- End Cottage Middle Cottage Wheatsheaf Cottage
- Statutory Address 1:
- END COTTAGE, FREE STREET
- Statutory Address 2:
- MIDDLE COTTAGE, FREE STREET
- Statutory Address 3:
- WHEATSHEAF COTTAGE, FREE 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:
- END COTTAGE, FREE STREET
- Statutory Address:
- MIDDLE COTTAGE, FREE STREET
- Statutory Address:
- WHEATSHEAF COTTAGE, FREE STREET
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Hampshire
- District:
- Winchester (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Bishops Waltham
- National Grid Reference:
- SU 55715 17533
Details
BISHOPS WALTHAM FREE STREET SU 55 17 9/40 Wheatsheaf Cottage, Middle Cottage, and End 6.3.67 Cottage II
Once the Wheatsheaf Inn, now three houses. Late-medieval timber-framed hall with two-storeyed crosswing, with early C18 extension (End Cottage) and re- cladding, with minor features of the late C19 and C20. Front wall of brickwork in Flemish bond with blue headers, plinth, cambered openings (arch in the gable), remains of rubbed flat arches to two windows now replaced by a cambered arch to one window, 1st floor band to part, deep eaves fascia on brick dentils to the south side; north wall with exposed brick-nogged frame, other walls of painted brickwork. Tile roof, half-hipped at the north end, with large middle gable (to crosswing), and higher roof to the south side ending in a gable. Large hall with inserted 1st floor and fireplace (c1600), with crosswing having a gabled front masking a once-jettied 1st floor, and a south side extension of the early C18 with later alterations to the fenestration; west front elevation of two storeys (centre with attic), 3.2.1. windows. Casements, the south side with sashes, including a splayed bay. Two plain doorways, with C20 hipped tiled canopies on posts. The interior of Middle Cottage indicates the medieval form; the former jettied upper floor, the gabled cross wing, and the insertion of fire- place and upper floor to the former hall. End cottage has an oak staircase.
Listing NGR: SU5569717744
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 146075
- 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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