Avon Cottages
AVON COTTAGES, 1 AND 2, CHURCH STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1130951
- Date first listed:
- 06-Nov-1989
- List Entry Name:
- Avon Cottages
- Statutory Address:
- AVON COTTAGES, 1 AND 2, CHURCH STREET
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1130951
- Date first listed:
- 06-Nov-1989
- List Entry Name:
- Avon Cottages
- Statutory Address 1:
- AVON COTTAGES, 1 AND 2, 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.
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:
- AVON COTTAGES, 1 AND 2, CHURCH STREET
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Wiltshire (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Durrington
- National Grid Reference:
- SU 15788 44897
Details
The following building shall be added:
DURRINGTON CHURCH STREET SU 14 SE 6/274 Nos 1 & 2 Avon Cottages GV II House. Circa C16 or early C17, remodelled in late C17 or early C18, extended in C18 and sub-divided in C18 or C19. No 2 timber framed with roughcast front. No 1 painted English bond brick with large dressed stone quoins. Thatched roof with gabled ends. Brick gable end stacks, the left hand truncated. Plan and Development: 2-room plan, each room heated from a gable end stack and with staircase between the two rooms. The right hand room (No 2) is the original house which included No 3 (qv) to the right and which might have been open to the roof and heated from an open hearth fire and then floored in circa late C17 or C18. In C18 a l-room plan addition (No 1) with a cellar was added to the left end. The sub-division. of the range into l-room plan cottages is C18 or C19. Exterior: 1 storey and attic. Asymmetrical front. No 1 to left has doorway on left with C20 door and window with C20 casement in segmental arch opening. No 2 has C20 shop front. 3 small attic casements under eyebrowed eaves. At rear No 2 to left has exposed timber framing and partly demolished brick oven. No 1 to right has eyebrowed eaves. Interior: No 1 has reused chamfered axial beam with hollow step stops and fireplace partly demolished. Room to right (No 2) has roughly chamfered axial beam, exposed joists and chamfered cambered timber fireplace lintel on brick jambs. The cellar under No 1 has what appears to be a reused wall post as a ceiling beam. Roof over No 2 (to right) has large diagonally set side purlins, common rafters, collars nailed to underside of purlins and lip, including battens all smoke blackened except where the rafters, battens and collars have been replaced.
Listing NGR: SU1578844897
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 321600
- 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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