Myrtle Cottage

MYRTLE COTTAGE, WALLISDOWN ROAD

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Overview

Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1108802
Date first listed:
04-Aug-1972
List Entry Name:
Myrtle Cottage
Statutory Address:
MYRTLE COTTAGE, WALLISDOWN ROAD

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1108802
Date first listed:
04-Aug-1972
List Entry Name:
Myrtle Cottage
Statutory Address 1:
MYRTLE COTTAGE, WALLISDOWN ROAD

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

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.

Understanding list entries

Corrections and minor amendments

Location

Statutory Address:
MYRTLE COTTAGE, WALLISDOWN ROAD

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

District:
Bournemouth, Christchurch and Poole (Unitary Authority)
Parish:
Bournemouth
National Grid Reference:
SZ 07326 94138

Details

1. 5186 WALLISDOWN ROAD (North Side) Myrtle Cottage SZ 0794 5/60 4.8.72.

II GV

2. Picturesque cottage on pathway in pinewood, circa 1850, ground floor and semi-attic red brick and some grey headers. L plan, diagonal to pathway, with lean-to timber verandah-porch set across angle. Mullioned casements, diamond lattice glazing, 3 lights with transom on ground floor, 2 lights on 1st. Steeply pitched roofs with ornamental scalloped tiles in bands alternating with ordinary tiles, carried down low at rear; overhanging eaves, plain bargeboards. Gable ends have canted bays with hipped roofs to ground floor. Diagonally set pair of chimneystacks on ridge. Projecting single-storey storehouse wing to north-west.

All the listed buildings in Wallisdown Road and Columbia Road form a group.

Listing NGR: SZ0732694138

Legacy

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

Legacy System number:
101889
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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