The Cottage
THE COTTAGE, BROOK LANE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1146134
- Date first listed:
- 27-Apr-1990
- List Entry Name:
- The Cottage
- Statutory Address:
- THE COTTAGE, BROOK LANE
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- Date:
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- Reference:
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1146134
- Date first listed:
- 27-Apr-1990
- List Entry Name:
- The Cottage
- Statutory Address 1:
- THE COTTAGE, BROOK LANE
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:
- THE COTTAGE, BROOK LANE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Wiltshire (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Fovant
- National Grid Reference:
- SU 00687 28377
Details
The following building shall be added to the list: SU 02 NW FOVANT BROOK LANE
4/195 The Cottage
II Small house. Probably C16, moulded in circa C17 and C18 and in C20. Painted sandstone with dressed sandstone front. Hipped plain tile roof. StacKs at sides with rebuilt brick shafts.
Plan: 2-room plan with central entrance into the right-hand room, straight stairs against the partition and C20 wing at rear. Originally both rooms were open to the roof, heated by separate open hearth fires and divided by a closed truss; it was probably part of a larger range. The circa C17 floors were inserted and a side stack built to serve the left room, while the right-hand room may have been unheated after the floor was inserted. The house was refronted in circa C18, although one of the window keyblocks has date 1670.
Exterior: 2 storeys. Symmetrical 2-window west front. C19 or C20 3-light casements with glazing bars and keystones to flat arches; ground floor left window has circa C18 casement and keystone with inset wooden tablet inscribed with illegible initials, the name Jay and date 1670. Central doorway with C19 plank door. Casements on returns and with C20 single storey wing at rear.
Interior: The left hand room has chamfered axial beams with ogee stops, large fireplace with chamfered cambered timber lintel and sections of C17 or C18 moulded plaster cornice. The right hand room has roughly chamfered axial beam, exposed joists and C20 fireplace. On first floor the closed truss is exposed; it is a raised cruck with cambered morticed collar, infilled with wattle-and-daub and smoke-blackened on both sides (evident in roof space); the purlins appear to be trenched but the trenched diagonal ridgepiece is missing. The common rafters have been removed and a C20 roof built above.
Note: "Jay" on the keyblock is reputedly the name of a Wilton estate mason.
Listing NGR: SU0068728377
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 320782
- 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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