Leda Cottage Sound O Water
LEDA COTTAGE, 14, DUCK STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1119436
- Date first listed:
- 26-Jan-1956
- List Entry Name:
- Leda Cottage Sound O Water
- Statutory Address:
- LEDA COTTAGE, 14, DUCK STREET
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1119436
- Date first listed:
- 26-Jan-1956
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 19-Nov-1985
- List Entry Name:
- Leda Cottage Sound O Water
- Statutory Address 1:
- LEDA COTTAGE, 14, DUCK STREET
- Statutory Address 2:
- SOUND O WATER, 16, DUCK 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:
- LEDA COTTAGE, 14, DUCK STREET
- Statutory Address:
- SOUND O WATER, 16, DUCK STREET
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Dorset (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Cerne Abbas
- National Grid Reference:
- ST 66424 01203
Details
ST 6601 CERNE ABBAS DUCK STREET, (east side)
11/78 No. 14 (Leda Cottage) 26.1.56 and no. 16 (Sound 0' Water )(formerly listed as Elephant and Castle Inn) GV II
Two semi-detached houses, built as one. Sound 0' Water now a Guest House. Mid C19. Stone walls, rendered and painted white, with corner pilasters. Slate roofs with gable ends and boxed eaves, lower at left hand addition. Brick stacks at left hand gable, ridge centre and right hand gable. 2 storeys. 5 windows in total, with one bay at left hand, 2-right wooden casements with glazing-bars, wood cills; canted bay window with glazing-bars at right ground (no. 16), C20. Front doors: no. 16, flush-panelled door at centre with 2 top lights. Semi-circular fanlight with glazing-bars, C19. No. 14, at right centre, recess-panelled with two-lights, C20. C19 fanlight with glazing-bars over.
Listing NGR: ST6642101216
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 105403
- 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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