Gingerbread Cottage
GINGERBREAD COTTAGE, 57 AND 58, CHURCH LANE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1120364
- Date first listed:
- 20-Nov-1959
- List Entry Name:
- Gingerbread Cottage
- Statutory Address:
- GINGERBREAD COTTAGE, 57 AND 58, CHURCH LANE
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- Reference:
- IOE01/07281/01
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1120364
- Date first listed:
- 20-Nov-1959
- List Entry Name:
- Gingerbread Cottage
- Statutory Address 1:
- GINGERBREAD COTTAGE, 57 AND 58, CHURCH LANE
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:
- GINGERBREAD COTTAGE, 57 AND 58, CHURCH LANE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Dorset (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Wool
- National Grid Reference:
- SY 84714 86542
Details
SY 8486 19/406 WOOL CHURCH LANE 20.11.59 (South-West Side)
Nos 57 and 58 Gingerbread Cottage
II
Semi-detached pair of cottages. Probably C18. No. 57 has plastered cob walls, thatched roof, brick stack shared with No. 58. One storey and attics. Stable door. Ground floor has two horizontally sliding sash windows with glazing bars. Attic has two dormers with similar sashes. Internally, main gruond floor room has large open fireplace with timber lintel and remains of bread oven. Some exposed ceiling beams. No. 58 has walls of stone, brick and cob on stone base, thatched roof, brick stack shared with No. 57. One storey and attics. Single-storey flat roofed extension at rear. Modern glazed door. Ground floor has two horizontally sliding sash windows with glazing bars. Attic has two dormers with similar sashes. Interior modernised. RCHM Monument 17.
Listing NGR: SY8471486542
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 108867
- 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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