Rosecroft Cottage

ROSECROFT COTTAGE, 3 AND 4, EAST STREET

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Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1166783
Date first listed:
24-Sept-1987
List Entry Name:
Rosecroft Cottage
Statutory Address:
ROSECROFT COTTAGE, 3 AND 4, EAST STREET

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1166783
Date first listed:
24-Sept-1987
List Entry Name:
Rosecroft Cottage
Statutory Address 1:
ROSECROFT COTTAGE, 3 AND 4, EAST 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.

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Corrections and minor amendments

Location

Statutory Address:
ROSECROFT COTTAGE, 3 AND 4, EAST STREET

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

County:
Hampshire
District:
Winchester (District Authority)
Parish:
Hambledon
National Park:
South Downs
National Grid Reference:
SU 65064 15276

Details

SU 61 NE HAMBLEDON EAST STREET, SOUTH SIDE 8/18 Nos 3 and 4, (Rosecroft Cottage) II Two houses, once four, used as a Poor House c1720 to 1840. C17 timber frame, with C18 and early C19 extensions and recladding, and C20 renovation. Walls of painted brickwork in Flemish Garden Wall bond, plinth, brick dentil eaves: some walls of flint with brick quoins and vertical bands, some parts rendered, small exposure of the frame. Hipped tile roof, with catslide at rear. L-shaped timber frame, extended to form a U-shaped block. North-west front elevation of two storeys, five above four windows. C20 casements. Two plain doorways, with tiled canopies on brackets. The other elevations are irregular, the long south-west wing (also wider and taller) having hipped dormers (to an elevation of one storey and attic).

Listing NGR: SU6506515274

Legacy

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Legacy System number:
146503
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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