Damson Cottage Plough Cottage
DAMSON COTTAGE, 4, CHURCH WALK
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1114057
- Date first listed:
- 15-Nov-1990
- List Entry Name:
- Damson Cottage Plough Cottage
- Statutory Address:
- DAMSON COTTAGE, 4, CHURCH WALK
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1114057
- Date first listed:
- 15-Nov-1990
- List Entry Name:
- Damson Cottage Plough Cottage
- Statutory Address 1:
- DAMSON COTTAGE, 4, CHURCH WALK
- Statutory Address 2:
- PLOUGH COTTAGE, 2, CHURCH WALK
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:
- DAMSON COTTAGE, 4, CHURCH WALK
- Statutory Address:
- PLOUGH COTTAGE, 2, CHURCH WALK
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Central Bedfordshire (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Cranfield
- National Grid Reference:
- SP 95475 41981
Details
The following buildings shall be added:-
SP 9441-9541 CRANFIELD CHURCH WALK (South Side) 8/65 No 2 (Plough Cottage) and No 4 (Damson Cottage)
II GV
Pair of attached houses. Late medieval cruck frame altered and extended C17; C18, C19 and C20 additions and alterations. Cruck frame and timber frame, with clay lump infill, the infill mostly replaced; No 2 with painted pebble dash render, No 4 with painted brick. Concrete interlocking tile roofs. Rebuilt brick stacks. 2 storeys; No 4, on left, of 2 bays, No 2 of 3 wide bays. No 2: C20 small-pane wooden casements. Central 3-panel door flanked by bow windows all under wooden canopy. 3-light windows to outer bays; 2-light first floor windows to 2 left bays. 2 ridge stacks. Added rear outshut, probably C18, has stable door and casements. No 4: C20 part-glazed door on left of 3-light small-pane window with similar 2-light window over, that on ground floor with segmented brick arch. Ridge stack on left. Large C20 rear addition. Interior: party wall between Nos 2 and 4 has cruck truss with massive blades. Other sections of later timber framing visible, particular at left end of No 4 which has jowelled wall post, tie-beam, collar, principal rafter, front mid rail and wall-plate. No 2 has, in left room, chamfered spine-beam with bar and cyma stop and chamfered joists. In right room chamfered beam and joists. Central room also has chamfered beam. No 4 was formerly a pub, named "The Sign of the Plough".
Listing NGR: SP9547541981
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 38374
- 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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