Smewins Cottage
SMEWINS COTTAGE, 1 AND 2, SMEWINS ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1117445
- Date first listed:
- 11-Apr-1972
- List Entry Name:
- Smewins Cottage
- Statutory Address:
- SMEWINS COTTAGE, 1 AND 2, SMEWINS ROAD
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1117445
- Date first listed:
- 11-Apr-1972
- List Entry Name:
- Smewins Cottage
- Statutory Address 1:
- SMEWINS COTTAGE, 1 AND 2, SMEWINS 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.
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:
- SMEWINS COTTAGE, 1 AND 2, SMEWINS ROAD
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Windsor and Maidenhead (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Shottesbrooke
- National Grid Reference:
- SU 84667 76138
Details
SHOTTESBROOKE SMEWINS ROAD SU 87 NW (west side) 8/28 Nos. 1 & 2 (Smewins Cottage) 11.04.72
G.V. II
Moated house, now disused cottage. C15, altered and extended C16, C17, altered C18 and C19. Part timber frame with part render and part brick infill; part render; part brick; part in Flemish bond, part in rat-trap bond. Irregular plan; gables on each front. 2 storeys. 4 chimneys. Windows mostly C19 casements. Entrance (east) front: irregular. 2, one-bay gables both with timber-framing exposed; the left gable projects further forward than the right. The left gable has a rendered, projecting plinth; 3-light window on first floor and a single-light window to left of centre on ground floor; queen post roof truss. The right gable has a 3-light casement window on first floor, with close-studding under; a 3-light casement window to left of centre on ground floor; a redundant crown post roof truss with later queen struts, and large jowled posts. The section between the gables has rendered infill and a plain entrance door on the left with small, tiled, hood. On the right of the right gable is a later extension with brick facing and a late C18 sash window with thin glazing bars and cambered head. The gable return to this section has a projecting gable chimney and some timber-frame visible with rendered infill on the upper level. The lower level has been underbuilt in brick. An interior inspection was not allowed at the time of survey. The moat on the north west, and south sides of the lone is a scheduled ancient monument.
Listing NGR: SU8466776138
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 41117
- 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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