Ashley Cottage

ASHLEY COTTAGE, 1,2,3 AND 4, VERWOOD ROAD

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Overview

Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1120054
Date first listed:
30-Oct-1987
List Entry Name:
Ashley Cottage
Statutory Address:
ASHLEY COTTAGE, 1,2,3 AND 4, VERWOOD ROAD

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1120054
Date first listed:
30-Oct-1987
Date of most recent amendment:
10-Jan-1990
List Entry Name:
Ashley Cottage
Statutory Address 1:
ASHLEY COTTAGE, 1,2,3 AND 4, VERWOOD 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.

Understanding list entries

Corrections and minor amendments

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.

Understanding list entries

Corrections and minor amendments

Location

Statutory Address:
ASHLEY COTTAGE, 1,2,3 AND 4, VERWOOD ROAD

The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.

District:
Dorset (Unitary Authority)
Parish:
St. Leonards and St. Ives
National Grid Reference:
SU 13704 05020

Details

In the entry for:

ST. LEONARDS AND ST. IVES SU 10 NW VERWOOD ROAD 1/45 ASHLEY Ashley Cottage Nos. 1, 2 and 3 II the address shall be amended to read: VERWOOD ROAD ASHLEY Ashley Cottage Nos. 1, 2, 3 and 4 II and the description shall be amended to read: Built and extended as the Poor House, now four dwellings; together with outbuildings. 1725, late C18, with C20 alterations. Brick walls of English bond, rubbed flat arches; part painted brickwork of Flemish Garden Wall bond, part with C20 roughcast. Tile roof with stepped brick eaves, flat- roofed dormers. The original south-west front (No. 4) is symmetrical, with a projecting centrepiece of two storeys, 2:1:2 windows. The features are of stone; coupled mullioned windows with chamfered reveals, and C20 metal casements, doorway with a broken pediment, console brackets, architrave and a C20 oak door. The central lights are small casements and between these and the doorway is a stone plaque, with arched head, inscribed "This House Erected by this Parish of Ringwood 1725". To the north of the oldest part there is an extension of similar size, (Nos. 2 and 3) but the elevation has been much altered, with three upper lights (the middle and original C18 leaded casement in a wood frame), three ground floor smaller casements and two C20 doorways; the rear elevation also has three original upper windows. The north end comprises a further extension (No. 1) of 1:2 storeys, 2:2 windows, painted brick walls of Flemish Garden Wall bond, with cambered openings (the upper blank), and a lower pitched slate roof (hipped to the two storeyed section). The interior retains most of its original timber framed struct- ure, with verticals to each bay and two to each cross section, the oak framing being chamfered; there is also a massive chimney breast to the north side of the oldest unit. Associated with the main building are two small single-storeyed utility blocks, set back from the roadway, with walls of brick and stucco, and slate roofs.

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ST LEONARDS AND ST IVES VERWOOD ROAD SU 10 NW ASHLEY 1/45 Ashley Cottage, Nos. 1, 2 and 3 - II Built and extended as the Poor House, now three dwellings; together with outbuildings. 1725, late C18, with C20 alterations. Brick walls of English bond, rubbed flat arches; part painted brickwork of Flemish Garden Wall bond, part with C20 roughcast. Tile roof with stepped brick eaves, flat-roofed dormers. The original south-west front is symmetrical, with a projecting centrepiece of two storeys, 2:1:2 windows. The features are of stone; coupled mullioned windows with chamfered reveals, and C20 metal casements, doorway with a broken pediment, console brackets, architrave and a C20 oak door. The central lights are small casements and between these and the doorway is a stone plaque, with arched head, inscribed "This House Erected by this Parish of Ringwood 1725". To the north of the oldest part there is an extension of similar size, but the elevation has been much altered, with three upper lights (the middle an original C18 leaded casement in a wood frame), three ground floor smaller casements and two C20 doorways; the rear elevation also has three original upper windows. The north end comprises a further extension of 1:2 storeys, 2:2 windows, painted brick walls of Flemish Garden Wall bond, with cambered openings (the upper blank), and a lower pitched slate roof (hipped to the two storeyed section). The interior retains most of its original timber framed structure, with verticals to each bay and two to each cross section, the oak framing being chamfered; there is also a massive chimney breast to the north side of the oldest unit. Associated with the main building are two small single-storeyed utility blocks, set back from the roadway, with walls of brick and stucco, and slate roofs.

Listing NGR: SU1370405020

Legacy

The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.

Legacy System number:
107672
Legacy System:
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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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