Lilac Cottage

LILAC COTTAGE, HIGH STREET

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Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1161472
Date first listed:
17-May-1985
List Entry Name:
Lilac Cottage
Statutory Address:
LILAC COTTAGE, HIGH STREET

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1161472
Date first listed:
17-May-1985
List Entry Name:
Lilac Cottage
Statutory Address 1:
LILAC COTTAGE, HIGH 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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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:
LILAC COTTAGE, HIGH STREET

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

District:
North Lincolnshire (Unitary Authority)
Parish:
Flixborough
National Grid Reference:
SE 87244 15144

Details

SE 81 NE FLIXBOROUGH HIGH STREET (north side)

1/34 Lilac Cottage -

GV II

House. C17 or earlier, with C19 extensions and C20 alterations. Timber framing and random ironstone rubble, with kitchen extension of squared ironstone rubble with brick dressings. Brick lean-to, gables and stacks. Concrete tile roof; clay pantiles to extensions. House has end-stack entry plan, two and a half bays of timber frame (perhaps originally larger). 2 storeys, 2 first floor windows. Plank door on right under segmental brick arch. Large C20 bay window and casement under wooden lintel to left. Casements above. A vertical strip of brick infill in the rubble wall marks the position of a wall post; a horizontal timber is visible at ground floor left. Cogged brick cornice, tumbled brick gables and end stacks. Kitchen extension to right, single storey with attic, 2 bays, has plank door and casement under segmental arches, and end stack. Lean-to on left has plank door and casement. Interior of house has ground floor ovolo-moulded ceiling beam with flat and tongue stops. First floor has exposed sections of 3 arch-braced tie beams with central portions removed.

Listing NGR: SE8724415144

Legacy

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

Legacy System number:
165789
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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