Rockery Cottage
ROCKERY COTTAGE, WHITEBECK LANE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1165635
- Date first listed:
- 02-May-1968
- List Entry Name:
- Rockery Cottage
- Statutory Address:
- ROCKERY COTTAGE, WHITEBECK LANE
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- Reference:
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1165635
- Date first listed:
- 02-May-1968
- List Entry Name:
- Rockery Cottage
- Statutory Address 1:
- ROCKERY COTTAGE, WHITEBECK 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:
- ROCKERY COTTAGE, WHITEBECK LANE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Lancashire
- District:
- Lancaster (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Priest Hutton
- National Grid Reference:
- SD5289073828
Details
SD 57 SW
4/174
2.5.1968
PRIEST HUTTON
WHITEBECK LANE
Rockery Cottage
II
House, C17th. Pebbledashed rubble with steep slate roof. 2-unit plan with
gable stacks and former central entry, the entrance now being through a
modern extension against the left-hand gable. 2 storeys, 3 windows on
ground floor, 2 on 1st floor, all modern with plain reveals except left-hand
ground-floor window which is of 3-lights and rebated and chamfered with
mullions. Left-hand chimney cap is round, on a square base which is carried
on a wooden corbelled frame beneath the apex. At the rear are later lean-to
extensions and windows with plain reveals.
Interior. Left-hand room has former firehood bressumer and a C18th moulded
shouldered fireplace with moulded cornice mantel. Rising from this room is a
spiral stair of old wood. Visible in the partition wall between the 2 units
on the 1st floor is an upper cruck rising from a ground-floor ceiling beam.
It has a light collar and redundant halvings, which indicate re-use. The
eaves have been raised and the house is said to have been thatched within
living memory.
Listing NGR: SD5289073828
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 181940
- 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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