Box Hedge Cottage
BOX HEDGE COTTAGE, HIGH STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1135685
- Date first listed:
- 29-May-1987
- List Entry Name:
- Box Hedge Cottage
- Statutory Address:
- BOX HEDGE COTTAGE, HIGH STREET
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1135685
- Date first listed:
- 29-May-1987
- List Entry Name:
- Box Hedge Cottage
- Statutory Address 1:
- BOX HEDGE COTTAGE, HIGH 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:
- BOX HEDGE COTTAGE, HIGH STREET
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Wiltshire (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Idmiston
- National Grid Reference:
- SU 18727 36425
Details
IDMISTON HIGH STREET, Porton SU 13 NE (east side) 3/75 Box Hedge Cottage II
Cottage. C17 and C18. Timber framed with brick noggings, extended in brick. Thatched roof. Single storey and attic, original structure of 2 bays, lobby entry plan, extended to left in C18 as single storey single bay, and raised in C20 to 2 storeys. One added bay on left, with lean-to to front, C20. Framing 3.panels high with corner braces. C20 boarded door in left framed bay opposite stack. C19 timber casement windows, but one leaded and one diamond pattern cast iron window in right extension. Three flush dormers, and half-round dormer in left bay. Roof steeply hipped to right. Interior: North east bay with fireplace and oven, and original stair to rear of stack. Right bay originally open to roof, unheated, stack added later. Important as illustration of the development of the lobby entry plan. (RCHM Survey)
Listing NGR: SU1872736425
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 319968
- 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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