Olmeda the Gate Cottage
OLMEDA, FERRY LANE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1125588
- Date first listed:
- 08-Jan-1987
- List Entry Name:
- Olmeda the Gate Cottage
- Statutory Address:
- OLMEDA, FERRY LANE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1125588
- Date first listed:
- 08-Jan-1987
- List Entry Name:
- Olmeda the Gate Cottage
- Statutory Address 1:
- OLMEDA, FERRY LANE
- Statutory Address 2:
- THE GATE COTTAGE, FERRY 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:
- OLMEDA, FERRY LANE
- Statutory Address:
- THE GATE COTTAGE, FERRY LANE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Buckinghamshire (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Medmenham
- National Grid Reference:
- SU 80572 83878
Details
MEDMENHAM FERRY LANE SU 88 SW (east side) 8/121 Olmeda and The Gate Cottage - GV II Pair of estate cottages, formerly serving as lodge to Medmenham Abbey. Circa 1900. By Romaine Walker for Mr. Robert Hudson. Lower storey of dressed chalk blocks, part whitewashed, with ovolo-moulded chalk mullion windows; upper storey roughcast and whitewashed with wooden bressumer and wood mullion windows. Plain tile roof, ornamental wooden bargeboards with remains of twisted wooden finials, brick chimneys with 'V' pilasters and off-set heads. Picturesque L-plan building of 1½ storeys. Asymmetrical W. front of 2½ bays has gable to left of centre with upper storey jettied on brackets. Irregular leaded casements to ground floor, 5-light canted oriel with leaded lights in gable. Right bay has board and stud door in moulded and stopped chalk surround with 4-centred arch and carved spandrels. Right gable end jettied with oriel window. Jettied rear wing with similar casements and door, gabled semi-dormer, and C20 conservatory at right end.
Listing NGR: SU8057283878
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 47004
- 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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