Strongs Cottage
STRONGS COTTAGE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1131141
- Date first listed:
- 09-Sept-1987
- List Entry Name:
- Strongs Cottage
- Statutory Address:
- STRONGS COTTAGE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1131141
- Date first listed:
- 09-Sept-1987
- List Entry Name:
- Strongs Cottage
- Statutory Address 1:
- STRONGS COTTAGE
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:
- STRONGS COTTAGE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Wiltshire (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- East Knoyle
- National Grid Reference:
- ST 88015 31266
Details
EAST KNOYLE MILTON ST 83 SE (south side) 8/41 Strongs Cottage GV II Detached cottage. Datestone over door: Edward Strong/1734 with incised scrolled decoration below. Coursed rubble stone, thatched roof with gable end brick stacks. Two-storey, 2-window front. Four-panelled sham door in C20 gabled porch to left of centre, 2- light casement to left and 6-pane fixed and 2-light casement to right. First floor has two 2-light casements. English bond brick extension attached to left has tiled roof and casements. Rear has French windows, 2-light casement to ground floor, 2-light casement to first. Interior has open fireplace with lintel on stone jambs, planked door, chamfered beams. This may have been the home of Edward Strong junior, the mason son of Sir Christopher Wren's senior mason, Edward Strong senior who died 1724. (K. Downes, Sir Christopher Wren, 1982)
Listing NGR: ST8801531266
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 321147
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Downes, K, The Architecture of Wren, (1982)
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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