Watercress Cottage
WATERCRESS COTTAGE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1115367
- Date first listed:
- 01-Feb-1956
- List Entry Name:
- Watercress Cottage
- Statutory Address:
- WATERCRESS COTTAGE
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- Date:
- 1999-10-07
- Reference:
- IOE01/01562/18
- Rights:
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1115367
- Date first listed:
- 01-Feb-1956
- List Entry Name:
- Watercress Cottage
- Statutory Address 1:
- WATERCRESS COTTAGE
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:
- WATERCRESS COTTAGE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Bath and North East Somerset (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Combe Hay
- National Grid Reference:
- ST 73390 59939
Details
ST 75 NW COMBE HAY
10/24 Watercress Cottage 1.2.56 G.V. II*
House. Dated 1624 on internal plasterwork. Rubble with freestone quoins; double Roman tiled roof with coped raised verges. Single storey and attics in 2 steep gabled dormers with finials. 2 bays: 2-, 3- and 4-light casement windows in ovolo moulded mullions, surrounds and lintels; triple relieving arches (with third arch over lower two arches) over ground floor window at left and door, and double relieving arches over first floor windows. Studded plank door to centre, in ovolo moulded surround and with strap hinges with fleur-de- lys ends. Single storey lean-to at right. Interior. Ground floor left room (the hall): freestone fire surround with ovolo moulded lintel, enriched cornice and moulded mantelshelf; above is a relief frieze of coarsely moulded figures, a central escutcheon and a fleur-de-lys. Ovolo and hollow moulded beams; other stop-chamfered beams. Rear winder stair. First floor left room (the hall chamber): plaster overmantel with mannered Ionic columns, dated TW/P and 16/24, enriched plasterwork with rosette teardrop motifs and enriched lintel with egg and dart cornice and decorative frieze. An interesting vernacular building with unusual details.
Listing NGR: ST7339059939
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 32438
- 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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