Portcullis Cottage

PORTCULLIS COTTAGE, STATION ROAD

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Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1155117
Date first listed:
10-Nov-1983
List Entry Name:
Portcullis Cottage
Statutory Address:
PORTCULLIS COTTAGE, STATION ROAD

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1155117
Date first listed:
10-Nov-1983
List Entry Name:
Portcullis Cottage
Statutory Address 1:
PORTCULLIS COTTAGE, STATION ROAD

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.

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Corrections and minor amendments

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.

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Corrections and minor amendments

Location

Statutory Address:
PORTCULLIS COTTAGE, STATION ROAD

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

District:
South Gloucestershire (Unitary Authority)
Parish:
Acton Turville
National Grid Reference:
ST 80873 81120

Details

STATION ROAD ST 88 SW (West side) 7/17

GV Portcullis Cottage II

The description shall be amended to read

Pair of houses, now one. Dated "IM 1811" but mid C18 in character with mid- late C20 addition and alterations. Coursed rubblestone with ashlar dressings; roof of Cotswold stone slates to front, double-roman clay tiles to rear and addition. 2 storeys with attic, 2 bays, with rear outshut and added rear wing (not of special interest). Quoins. Paired doorways to centre, left one in C20 trellised porch, right one now a window. All windows of 2 lights with leaded casements, the original windows with chamfered mullions and surrounds, and dripstones. Raised lozenge datestone to centre of 1st floor. Shaped kneelers, coping, and corniced stacks to gables. Rear: catslide roof to outshut. Returns: each has an original attic window with dripstone, and an inserted window in outshut; quoins at rear angle indicate that originally the outshut was lower.

Interior: three wooden winder staircases; elm floorboards; original roof timbers.

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ACTON TURVILLE C.P. STATION ROAD ST 88 SW (west side) 7/17 Portcullis Cottage

G.V. II Pair of houses, now one. Dated "IM 1811" on lozenge in centre of first floor. Coursed rubble; Cotswold stone slate roof on ground floor, 2 windows on first floor. 2-light casement windows with lead cames, in chamfered mullions and surrounds. Door off-centre to left under C20th porch; blocked doorway to right, now a window.

Listing NGR: ST8087381120

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Legacy System number:
34216
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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