Most Southern Pair of Cottages, North of Corner of Rushmere Lane
MOST SOUTHERN PAIR OF COTTAGES, NORTH OF CORNER OF RUSHMERE LANE, SCHOOL LANE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1129910
- Date first listed:
- 02-Nov-1983
- List Entry Name:
- Most Southern Pair of Cottages, North of Corner of Rushmere Lane
- Statutory Address:
- MOST SOUTHERN PAIR OF COTTAGES, NORTH OF CORNER OF RUSHMERE LANE, SCHOOL LANE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1129910
- Date first listed:
- 02-Nov-1983
- List Entry Name:
- Most Southern Pair of Cottages, North of Corner of Rushmere Lane
- Statutory Address 1:
- MOST SOUTHERN PAIR OF COTTAGES, NORTH OF CORNER OF RUSHMERE LANE, SCHOOL 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:
- MOST SOUTHERN PAIR OF COTTAGES, NORTH OF CORNER OF RUSHMERE LANE, SCHOOL LANE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Cheshire West and Chester (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Aldford and Saighton
- National Grid Reference:
- SJ 41799 59178
Details
SJ 45 NW ALDFORD 'C.P. SCHOOL LANE (East side) 6/23 Most southern pair of cottages, north of corner of Rushmere Lane
GV II
Handed pair of cottages, circa 1875, by John Douglas for the 1st Duke of Westminster. Brown brick lower storey; white rendered upper storey with floral pargetted panels below windows and at crowns of paired dormer gables to front; red tile hipped roof with central chimney of shaped brickwork. Each cottage is of l½ storeys and 1 window. Arched timber-framed porch under catslide roof, left; side porch to right is similar. Small-pane iron casements under camber-arches in the lower storey; in timber surrounds proud of the wall-face in upper storey. Boarded doors With Clements Cottages, Middle Lane (q.v.) and Nos. 1 to 4 Rushmere Lane (q.v.) this pair is an early example of the Free Style in Cheshire.
Listing NGR: SJ4179959178
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 55219
- 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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