Oak Tree Cottage
OAK TREE COTTAGE, HOWE LANE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1154799
- Date first listed:
- 04-Nov-1986
- List Entry Name:
- Oak Tree Cottage
- Statutory Address:
- OAK TREE COTTAGE, HOWE LANE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1154799
- Date first listed:
- 04-Nov-1986
- List Entry Name:
- Oak Tree Cottage
- Statutory Address 1:
- OAK TREE COTTAGE, HOWE 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:
- OAK TREE COTTAGE, HOWE LANE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Dorset (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Verwood
- National Grid Reference:
- SU 08446 08084
Details
In the entry for:
SU 00 NE VERWOOD HOWE LANE
6/96 Oak Tree Cottage
II
The description shall be amended to read:
Detached cottage. Probably C18, altered and extended C20. Plastered cob walls, thatched roof, hipped at right end; rebuilt brick stack at left end. One storey and attic. 2 bays, with side outshut additions and rear wing and outshut additions. Central board door in added open porch with hipped, thatched, catslide roof. Flanking 2-light wooden casement windows on each floor, those on upper floor in eyebrow dormers. Left-hand outshut c.1960 with Welsh slate roof, right-hand outshut c.1983 with pantile roof, neither of special interest. Rear: right-hand wing c.1960, left-hand wing and rear outshut c.1983, all with pantile roofs and not of special interest. Main range has one eyebrow dormer (with C20 casement). Interior: main range has large open fireplace with timber lintel; old beams and joists; mortices in soffit of cross-beam indicate position of former partition between main, left-hand, room and smaller room on right; original cob rear wall survives within additions; on attic floor eaves plates, crude log purlins and one principal rafter roof truss are visible. (RCHM Monument 44. Dorset vol. V).
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VERWOOD SU 00 NE HOWE LANE
6/96 Oak Tree Cottage
II
Detached cottage. Probably C18. Plastered cob walls, thatched roof, hipped at right end; brick stack at left end. One storey and attic. Lean-to at left end, with plastered walls and slate roof. Lean-to at right end, with plastered walls and pantiled roof. 2 single storey gabled wings at rear, with plastered walls and pantiled roofs. In main building, ledged door in open porch with hipped thatched catslide roof. Ground floor has 2 plain casements. Attic has 2 dormers with similar casements. Internally, large open fireplace with timber lintel. Some exposed ceiling beams. (R.C.H.M. Monument 44. Dorset Vol V).
Listing NGR: SU0844608084
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 107555
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Inventory of Dorset, (1975)
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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