Lawes Cottage
LAWES COTTAGE, SNOW HILL
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1146124
- Date first listed:
- 23-Mar-1960
- List Entry Name:
- Lawes Cottage
- Statutory Address:
- LAWES COTTAGE, SNOW HILL
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- Date:
- 2003-07-04
- Reference:
- IOE01/10702/15
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1146124
- Date first listed:
- 23-Mar-1960
- List Entry Name:
- Lawes Cottage
- Statutory Address 1:
- LAWES COTTAGE, SNOW HILL
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:
- LAWES COTTAGE, SNOW HILL
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Wiltshire (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Dinton
- National Grid Reference:
- SU 01456 31589
Details
SU 03 SW DINTON SNOW HILL (north side)
1/169 Lawes Cottage 23.3.60
GV II
Detached house. Late C17. Rubble stone, stone slate roof with gable end stone and brick stacks and coped verges. Three-cell house. Two-storey, 4-window. Planked door to right of centre, 3- light recessed chamfered mullioned casement with hoodmould to right and 3-light and 2-light recessed chamfered mullioned casements with hoodmoulds to left. First floor has two 3-light mullioned casements with hoodmoulds and two 2-light mullioned casements. Left return has 2-light mullioned casement with hoodmould to ground and first floor. Right return has external brick stack. Rear has two 3-light wood mullioned casements and 2-light leaded casement lighting stairs to left, first floor has two 3-light wood mullioned casements, two flat-headed dormers and one raking dormer over attic stair window. Attached to left is C19 extension. Interior has chamfered beams with ogee stops to ground and first floors, beam of central ground floor room supported on jowled post, partly blocked open fireplace to west room, winding stairs to rear rise to attic. Three-bay collar-truss roof. Cottage takes its name from the composer Henry Lawes, born in Dinton 1596, who wrote the music for Milton's Masque 'Comus', and his brother William born 1602, also composer add musician. (V.C.H. Wiltshire, Vol 8, 1965; Oxford Companion to Music, 1978)
Listing NGR: SU0145631589
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 320755
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Oxford Companion to Music, (1978)
Pugh, RB, Crittall, E, The Victoria History of the County of Wiltshire, (1965)
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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