Mermaid Cottage
MERMAID COTTAGE, HAWRIDGE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1124875
- Date first listed:
- 23-Nov-1983
- List Entry Name:
- Mermaid Cottage
- Statutory Address:
- MERMAID COTTAGE, HAWRIDGE
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- Reference:
- IOE01/06633/03
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1124875
- Date first listed:
- 23-Nov-1983
- List Entry Name:
- Mermaid Cottage
- Statutory Address 1:
- MERMAID COTTAGE, HAWRIDGE
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:
- MERMAID COTTAGE, HAWRIDGE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Buckinghamshire (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Cholesbury-cum-St. Leonards
- National Grid Reference:
- SP 93581 07008
Details
SP 90 NW CHOLESBURY-CUM-ST. LEONARDS HAWRIDGE (north side)
2/76 Mermaid Cottage
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- II
Small house formerly an inn. C17 refronted, raised and extended C18. Rubble flint with brick bands forming panels. Old tile roof, central chimney, dentil brick eaves. Two storeys, three bays with fourth bay on right added recently in matching materials and windows. Original doorway opposite stack, now with 2-light casement window. Present door to left with modern lean-to tiled canopy. Three ground floor casements, all openings with segmental brick arches. Three Yorkshire sashes to first floor. Late C18 rear extension flint and brick, old tile roof paralled to main roof. Interior: large stack with inglenook to central room, chamfered spine beams, timber frame in rear wall with curved braces. Evidence of eaves being raised up in C18.
Listing NGR: SP9358107008
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 44679
- 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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