Crabb Cottage and Former Cart Shed

CRABB COTTAGE AND FORMER CART SHED, CHURCH STREET

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Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1120203
Date first listed:
21-Dec-1982
List Entry Name:
Crabb Cottage and Former Cart Shed
Statutory Address:
CRABB COTTAGE AND FORMER CART SHED, CHURCH STREET
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Official list entry

Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1120203
Date first listed:
21-Dec-1982
List Entry Name:
Crabb Cottage and Former Cart Shed
Statutory Address 1:
CRABB COTTAGE AND FORMER CART SHED, CHURCH 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.

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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.

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Corrections and minor amendments

Location

Statutory Address:
CRABB COTTAGE AND FORMER CART SHED, CHURCH STREET

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

District:
Dorset (Unitary Authority)
Parish:
Shapwick
National Grid Reference:
ST 93750 01619

Details

1. 5193 SHAPWICK CHURCH STREET Crabb Cottage and former Cart Shed ST 93 01 7/7 21.12.82 II GV 2. Late C16 early C17. Walls of stone, brick and cob. Thatched roof, brick stack. One storey and attics. Present house has one room on each floor - (now subdivided) but may have extended further to south. South wall rebuilt in brick in C18 or C19. North gable wall - (contains chimney) of brick and stone in chequer pattern. East wall has, on ground floor, one casement window with centre glazing bar. Attic has one dormer with casements. Entrance in south wall. Part-glazed door. Ground floor has two casement windows with glazing bars. Attic has two similar windows, in gable. Main ground floor room has large open fireplace with timber lintol and bread oven. Two deeply chamfered ceiling beams with cyma stops. West of house, a former cart shed, single-storeyed, with cob walls and thatched roof, now incorporated in the house and linked to it by a flat-roofed lobby. Reputed to be the former Priest's House. RCHM Monument 11.

Listing NGR: ST9375001619

Legacy

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Legacy System number:
107308
Legacy System:
LBS

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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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