COTTAGE AT LEIGH COMMON

COTTAGE AT LEIGH COMMON, WRIGGLE RIVER LANE

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Overview

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1153820
Date first listed:: 08-Oct-1986
List Entry Name:: COTTAGE AT LEIGH COMMON
Statutory Address:: COTTAGE AT LEIGH COMMON, WRIGGLE RIVER LANE

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1153820
Date first listed:: 08-Oct-1986
List Entry Name:: COTTAGE AT LEIGH COMMON
Statutory Address 1:: COTTAGE AT LEIGH COMMON, WRIGGLE RIVER 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.

Understanding list entries

Corrections and minor amendments

Location

Statutory Address:: COTTAGE AT LEIGH COMMON, WRIGGLE RIVER LANE

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

District:: Dorset (Unitary Authority)
Parish:: Leigh
National Grid Reference:: ST 61717 05570

Details

LEIGH ST 60 NW WRIGGLE RIVER LANE 5/56 Cottage at Leigh Common

- II

Cottage. Late C18 - early C19. Walls of flint and cob, part colourwashed, extended to north in brick in late C19. Thatched roof. One brick stack at right end of original building and one at right end of later section. 2 storeys simple 2-room plan. Ledged door in verandah type porch with brick piers and pantile roof. In original section, one horizontally sliding sash on first floor. In later section, one casement with glazing bars on each floor. Interior largely unaltered, main room has large open fireplace with timber lintel and bread oven. Probably originally a squatter's cottage built on highway verge.

Listing NGR: ST6171705570

Legacy

The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.

Legacy System number:: 106074
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.