Hill Top Cottages
HILL TOP COTTAGES, 1, 2 AND 3, BEACON HILL
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1151739
- Date first listed:
- 23-Nov-1987
- List Entry Name:
- Hill Top Cottages
- Statutory Address:
- HILL TOP COTTAGES, 1, 2 AND 3, BEACON HILL
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1151739
- Date first listed:
- 23-Nov-1987
- List Entry Name:
- Hill Top Cottages
- Statutory Address 1:
- HILL TOP COTTAGES, 1, 2 AND 3, BEACON 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:
- HILL TOP COTTAGES, 1, 2 AND 3, BEACON HILL
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Barnsley (Metropolitan Authority)
- Parish:
- Silkstone
- National Grid Reference:
- SE2926604721
Details
SE 20 SE SILKSTONE BEACON HILL
(North side, off),
Silkstone Common
5/152 Nos 1, 2 & 3 Hill Top
Cottages
II
Group of cottages. C17. Altered. Thinly coursed rubble with quoins,
rendered front. Stone slate roof part bitumen covered. Two storeys. The
main 3-cell range has a lower, later, short, gabled wing to rear left, and a
parallel range to rear right giving a U-plan. Near-central entrance in C20
glass porch. Entrance with cambered head at right end. Two, double-
chamfered windows survive at right end: one of 2 lights to ground floor and
one of 3-lights to first floor both with one mullion missing. Other windows
are of C18 or 19 type with square-cut surrounds, those to left end formerly
probably of 3-lights. Hollow-chamfered gable copings on moulded kneelers.
Low corniced ashlar stacks to left and to ridge. Taller corniced ashlar
stack with twin flues to right and a similar one to rear range. Left return
has 2-light double-chamfered windows, with mullions removed, and a later
entrance. Blocked ventilation slits in gable apex.
Interior altered.
Listing NGR: SE2926604721
This list entry was subject to a minor amendment on 22/12/2020 to correct the address.
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 334281
- 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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