Laurel Cottage and Attached Unoccupied Cottage
LAUREL COTTAGE AND ATTACHED UNOCCUPIED COTTAGE, PEPPER STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1135875
- Date first listed:
- 23-Dec-1983
- List Entry Name:
- Laurel Cottage and Attached Unoccupied Cottage
- Statutory Address:
- LAUREL COTTAGE AND ATTACHED UNOCCUPIED COTTAGE, PEPPER STREET
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- Reference:
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1135875
- Date first listed:
- 23-Dec-1983
- List Entry Name:
- Laurel Cottage and Attached Unoccupied Cottage
- Statutory Address 1:
- LAUREL COTTAGE AND ATTACHED UNOCCUPIED COTTAGE, PEPPER 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:
- LAUREL COTTAGE AND ATTACHED UNOCCUPIED COTTAGE, PEPPER STREET
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Warrington (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Appleton
- National Grid Reference:
- SJ 63708 83357
Details
SJ 68 SW APPLETON C.P. PEPPER STREET (North-East Side) 6/16 Laurel Cottage and attached unoccupied cottage.
II
Pair of cottages (probably originally one) C17 or earlier. Oak frame of brick-nogged rectangular panels with one intermediate rail and some diagonal braces. Projecting sandstone plinth and thatched roof with chimney set longitudinally on ridge right of centre and single-flue chimney on left gable. One storey with attic bedrooms in roof; 5 bays in all. Wooden casements replaced and altered ad hoc; boarded doors - that to Laurel Cottage (left) has small early C20 gabled porch. Full-length lean-to at rear.
Interior: Ingle nook at right end of Laurel cottage; chamfered oak beams; some timber framing exposed in internal walls; ogee arched oak lintel between parlour and kitchen of Laurel Cottage; large oak purlins.
The building was probably at first one dwelling with a lobby entrance opposite the ridge chimney and two back-to-back ingle nooks.
Listing NGR: SJ6370883357
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 58952
- 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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