ROOKERY COTTAGE AND SWAN COTTAGE

ROOKERY COTTAGE AND SWAN COTTAGE, CLAY LANE

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1139203
Date first listed:: 12-Mar-1986
List Entry Name:: ROOKERY COTTAGE AND SWAN COTTAGE
Statutory Address:: ROOKERY COTTAGE AND SWAN COTTAGE, CLAY LANE

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Date:: 2000-08-01
Reference:: IOE01/00019/24
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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1139203
Date first listed:: 12-Mar-1986
List Entry Name:: ROOKERY COTTAGE AND SWAN COTTAGE
Statutory Address 1:: ROOKERY COTTAGE AND SWAN COTTAGE, CLAY LANE

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.

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This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

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.

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Location

Statutory Address:: ROOKERY COTTAGE AND SWAN COTTAGE, CLAY LANE

The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.

District:: Cheshire West and Chester (Unitary Authority)
Parish:: Whitegate and Marton
National Grid Reference:: SJ 60487 67493

Details

In the entry for:

MARTON C P CLAY LANE SJ 66 NW 4/65 Rookery Cottage and Swan Cottage II

The description shall be amended to read:

Pair of cottages. Mid/late C17 with later additions. Timber framing and rendered brick with slate roof. 2 storeys, 1 bay each with C20 added bay to south gable of Rookery Cottage. Stone plinth, small framing three panels in height with angle braces. Boarded doors under gabled hoods, the door to Swan Cottage being a C20 replacement. Three-light ground floor windows but the two Rookery Cottage windows are C20 bows. First floor windows are 2-light gabled half dormers. The bay added to Rookery Cottage is of rendered brickwork. A stucco rendered brick cottage with slate roof and C20 door and windows has been built against the north gable of Swan Cottage, this is of no special interest.

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MARTON C.P. CLAY LANE SJ 66 NW 4/65 Rookery Cottage and Swan Cottage - - II Pair of cottages. Mid/late C17. Timber framed with rendered infill and tile roof. Three storeys. Entrance front: Stone plinth. 11 x 3 cells of small framing with angle braces to left and right and to either side of the seventh post front left. C19 gabled porches to either side of the seventh upright with C20 doors. Three-light ground floor windows to right and left of these, the left hand one being a canted oriel. First floor: Two C19 2-light gabled dormers. To the right are C20 additions.

Listing NGR: SJ6048767493

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Legacy System number:: 57347
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.