Vine Cottage
VINE COTTAGE, 5, OLD CHURCH LANE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1116566
- Date first listed:
- 29-Dec-1972
- List Entry Name:
- Vine Cottage
- Statutory Address:
- VINE COTTAGE, 5, OLD CHURCH LANE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1116566
- Date first listed:
- 29-Dec-1972
- List Entry Name:
- Vine Cottage
- Statutory Address 1:
- VINE COTTAGE, 5, OLD CHURCH LANE
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:
- VINE COTTAGE, 5, OLD CHURCH LANE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Surrey
- District:
- Waverley (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Farnham
- National Grid Reference:
- SU 84677 45332
Details
1099 OLD CHURCH LANE THE BOURNE SU 84 NW 11/ 177 No 5 (Vine Cottage) SU 84 NW 11/177 II 1800 circa. 2 storeys, 2 window bays to original part. Red brick, ironstone core; slate roof. 2 windows above, 3 windows 1 sash and 2 modern casements and 2 doors one a French casement on grouped floor which is covered by a verandah. 2 storeys, 1 window bay [one Window above and 2 below] added in 18905, 2 storeys 2 window bays added in 1950s. Listed for historical reasons as the home for many years of George Sturt (died 1926) who, after William Cobbett, was probably the most famous of Farmhouse sons. While living here he wrote "The Wheewrights Shop", the building of which is still standing in East Street (no 84) and is listed, and his Journal in which he recorded the "peasant" life of the neighbourhood.
Listing NGR: SU8467745332
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 443036
- 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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