Paradise Cottage the Old Bakery

PARADISE COTTAGE, 68, ROSE STREET

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Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1155497
Date first listed:
02-Oct-1969
List Entry Name:
Paradise Cottage the Old Bakery
Statutory Address:
PARADISE COTTAGE, 68, ROSE STREET
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Official list entry

Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1155497
Date first listed:
02-Oct-1969
List Entry Name:
Paradise Cottage the Old Bakery
Statutory Address 1:
PARADISE COTTAGE, 68, ROSE STREET
Statutory Address 2:
THE OLD BAKERY, 70, ROSE STREET

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.

Understanding list entries

Corrections and minor amendments

Location

Statutory Address:
PARADISE COTTAGE, 68, ROSE STREET
Statutory Address:
THE OLD BAKERY, 70, ROSE STREET

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

District:
Wokingham (Unitary Authority)
Parish:
Wokingham
National Grid Reference:
SU 81390 68770

Details

WOKINGHAM ROSE STREET SU 8168 NW (North west side) 18/53 No.68 (Paradise Cottage) and No.70 (The Old Bakery) 2.10.69 G.V. II Hall house, now 2 cottages. Early C16, extended C19 and altered mid C20. Part brick, part timber framed with brick infill, old tile gabled roof. L-plan of 3 framed bays, former hall in centre, with extension at rear; formerly jettied on road front, now underbuilt in brick. 2 storeys. Ridge chimney to right of centre. Irregular front, with moulded beam under first floor windows, probably re-positioned from former jetty beam. No. 68 has two, C20, 2-light casement windows with glazing bars and C20 panelled entrance door flanked by 2 fluted pilasters and with a flat hood. No.70 has 2 pairs of C20 2-light casements on first floor, 2, 3-light on ground floor, all leaded; C20 panelled entrance door on right under small tiled lean-to hood. Interior:- part timber frame visible, plain principal beams with large plain joists on end framed bay, ground floor of No.70. Jowled posts and long arch braces on first floor.

Listing NGR: SU8139068770

Legacy

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Legacy System number:
41734
Legacy System:
LBS

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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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