Cromwell Cottage
CROMWELL COTTAGE, VILLAGE STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1119163
- Date first listed:
- 31-Jul-1961
- List Entry Name:
- Cromwell Cottage
- Statutory Address:
- CROMWELL COTTAGE, VILLAGE STREET
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- Reference:
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1119163
- Date first listed:
- 31-Jul-1961
- List Entry Name:
- Cromwell Cottage
- Statutory Address 1:
- CROMWELL COTTAGE, VILLAGE STREET
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:
- CROMWELL COTTAGE, VILLAGE STREET
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Dorset (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Leigh
- National Grid Reference:
- ST 62047 08608
Details
LEIGH VILLAGE STREET ST 6208 (North side) 9/47 Cromwell Cottage 31.7.61 GV II*
Detached house. Mid-late C16, altered in early C17 and early C18. Rubble stone walls, thatched roof with coped gables, brick end stacks. One storey and attic. Ledged door in 4-centred arch with hoodmould. Date stone over this IR 1628. On ground floor, left of door a 4-light stone mullioned window with lead lights, under hoodmould. Right of door one 3-light and one 4-light similar windows. In attic, left of door, a similar 4-light window, without hoodmould, slightly dormered. Right of door, date stone 1726. Above the original wall plate 2 timber mullioned windows with lead lights. Small C20 single-storey lean-to extension at rear. House of open-hall origin, possibly a long-house. Internally, left ground floor room has large open fireplace with timber lintel and jambs. Roof at this end of jointed cruck construction. Heavy plank and muntin partition with shouldered arched doorway between left room and original cross-passage. Right end room has large open fireplace with timber lintel. Some chamfered ceiling beams. (RCHM Monument 6. (Dorset. Vol.I) R Machin. "The Houses of Yetminster". University of Bristol. 1978.)
Listing NGR: ST6204708608
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 106065
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Inventory of Dorset, (1952)
Machin, R, The Houses of Yetminster, (1978)
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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