Moor Cottage Farm

MOOR COTTAGE FARM

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Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1096082
Date first listed:
08-Apr-2003
List Entry Name:
Moor Cottage Farm
Statutory Address:
MOOR COTTAGE FARM

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1096082
Date first listed:
08-Apr-2003
List Entry Name:
Moor Cottage Farm
Statutory Address 1:
MOOR COTTAGE FARM

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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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:
MOOR COTTAGE FARM

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

County:
Derbyshire
District:
Derbyshire Dales (District Authority)
Parish:
Wirksworth
National Grid Reference:
SK 30050 54332

Details

WIRKSWORTH

812/0/10014 BOLEHILL
08-APR-03 Moor Cottage Farm

II

House, c.1830, later adapted for use as a farmhouse. Red brick, iron framed windows, Roman tiled roof. Two storeys.
PLAN: originally cross-shaped, with later 19th century infill to north angle.
EXTERIOR: south-facing main front of three bays with projecting gabled central section. Pairs of pointed windows to left and central sections with small panes of glass, arched and with quatrefoils to most windows; those to ground floor centre are taller than the others. Altered French windows with shutters, set within a trellised verandah with slate roof to right.
INTERIOR: not inspected, reported as retaining marble chimneypieces, early doors, cupboards, plasterwork. Iron hand-pump in vaulted cellar.
HISTORY: not shown on an Enclosure map of 1806 but marked on the Tithe Apportionment plan of 1835. Identified as Wright's Cottage on the 1849 Tithe Award map. This house was probably built for the family of Charles Wright (d.1846), a prosperous grocer and vintner. It is a highly characteristic example of a cottage ornee, adapted for use later in the 19th century as a farmhouse when the adjoining range of farm buildings were added. There is a tufa-faced grotto in the garden, emphasising the genteel nature of the original house. Photographic evidence suggests that the building was formerly lime-washed; the roof covering has been altered, and may originally have been thatched. Listed as a highly characateristic example of a late Georgian genteel cottage, displaying the influence of designers such as Humphry Repton and sons.
SK3005054333

Legacy

The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.

Legacy System number:
490048
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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