Cooks Hill
COOKS HILL
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1096358
- Date first listed:
- 14-Mar-1969
- List Entry Name:
- Cooks Hill
- Statutory Address:
- COOKS HILL
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1096358
- Date first listed:
- 14-Mar-1969
- List Entry Name:
- Cooks Hill
- Statutory Address 1:
- COOKS HILL
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:
- COOKS HILL
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Worcestershire
- District:
- Wychavon (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Salwarpe
- National Grid Reference:
- SO 87476 61517
Details
SO 86 SE SALWARPE CP SALWARPE
4/232 Cooks Cooks Hill
14.3.69 - II
Also called The Tappet Hen. Shown on OS map as Cookshill Cottage. House. C15, altered and extended probably late C17 and mid-C20. Timber- framed, painted brick and rendered infill on sandstone rubble base, brick replacement walling, refacing and additions, plain tiled roofs, half-hipped to front wing, large brick central ridge stack with three square shafts and joint cap, also small ridge stack to west wing. Former cruck hall house of four bays with two-bay hall, one bay of which is now occupied by large chimney, on roughly north/south axis with gable end facing road and single bay additions at centre of both side elevations to form cruciform plan; east wing extended mid-C20; single storey and attic with dormers. Framing: visible mainly in right side elevation; two and three panels from sill to wall-plate, long straight braces in west wing gable end, end cruck trusses now replaced by collar-and-tie-beam trusses with queen struts. Front elevation facing road: north end bay of original part projects; gable end has two 2-light casements, one with plank weathering, one with cambered head, 2-light attic casement with plank weathering and, at right side, a narrow door with lean-to canopy on shaped brackets; in left side elevation is a C20 square light, 2-light casement and flat-roofed dormer with casement and in the right side elevation is a 3-light C20 casement and gabled dormer with 2-light casement; projecting from the main range to the left is a C17 single bay wing, brick with a 2- course band above ground floor level, a 3-light ground floor casement and a half-dormer with catslide roof and 2-light casement; to the left of this is the C20 addition; projecting to the right of the main range is the other C17 single bay wing in which there is a 2-light casement. To the rear of this wing is the present main entrance of C20 date. Interior: three cruck trusses are retained; back-to-back inglenook fireplaces in lower bay of hall and inserted floor.
Listing NGR: SO8747661517
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 148128
- 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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