Bridge Cottage and Canal Cottage
BRIDGE COTTAGE AND CANAL COTTAGE, WHATCROFT LANE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1160389
- Date first listed:
- 02-Jan-1986
- List Entry Name:
- Bridge Cottage and Canal Cottage
- Statutory Address:
- BRIDGE COTTAGE AND CANAL COTTAGE, WHATCROFT LANE
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- Reference:
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1160389
- Date first listed:
- 02-Jan-1986
- List Entry Name:
- Bridge Cottage and Canal Cottage
- Statutory Address 1:
- BRIDGE COTTAGE AND CANAL COTTAGE, WHATCROFT 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:
- BRIDGE COTTAGE AND CANAL COTTAGE, WHATCROFT LANE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Cheshire West and Chester (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Davenham
- National Grid Reference:
- SJ6830970096
Details
SJ 67 SE
1/29
WHATCROFT C.P.
WHATCROFT LANE
Bridge Cottage & Canal Cottage
II
Farmhouse, early C19, now divided into two dwellings. Brown brick in
English Garden Wall Bond with roof of old slates. 2 storeys and
blind attic, 2 bays. A 2-storey, 3-bay wing at the rear (north-west)
completes a "T" shaped plan. Projecting brick plinth and 2-course
deep brick bands above ground floor and first floor windows. Framed,
ledged and battened door in chamfered frame under segmental arch.
3-light flush casements with terracotta sills and cambered arches with
turning pieces. Windows in the gables and rear wing are similar but
mainly 2-light. On the south-west side a later two-storey porch has
been added into the internal angle formed by the rear wing, this is
open-fronted with a wedge lintel over the opening.
Interior: Chamfered-beams in both sections.
Listing NGR: SJ 68309 70096
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 57210
- 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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