Sunny Bank Cottage
SUNNY BANK COTTAGE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1167971
- Date first listed:
- 02-Dec-1986
- List Entry Name:
- Sunny Bank Cottage
- Statutory Address:
- SUNNY BANK COTTAGE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1167971
- Date first listed:
- 02-Dec-1986
- List Entry Name:
- Sunny Bank Cottage
- Statutory Address 1:
- SUNNY BANK COTTAGE
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:
- SUNNY BANK COTTAGE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Worcestershire
- District:
- Wychavon (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Overbury
- National Grid Reference:
- SO 95924 37660
Details
OVERBURY CP - SO 9437 - 9537 9/133 Sunny Bank Cottage - II
House. Probably late C18, altered and extended in 1902 by Ernest Newton for Richard Biddulph Martin. Coursed dressed limestone rubble with ashlar dressings; slate roof with gable-end parapets and handmade brick end stacks. Two storeys and attic with half-dormers and moulded eaves cornice. Three bays; outer bays have 16-pane sashes on both main floors and above are gabled half-dormers which have parapets with kneelers and 9-pane sashes. There is a central first floor round-headed sash window with a moulded keyblock. Beneath it is the main entrance which has a moulded flat stone canopy on consoles and a round-headed doorway in which has been inserted a partly-glazed door with a cambered head and a segmental panel above. An out building converted in 1902 to form a small extension projects to the north-east side. Its walls have been raised in height in ashlar and it has a shone tiled roof laid in diminishing courses and an ashlar ridge.end stack with two shafts. Single storey and attic with dormers. Two bays. Ground floor has two 12-pane sashes and a rectangular leaded light and there are two gabled dormers with 2-light leaded casements. In the angle with the main part is a 4-panelled door and a small attic window. The name of the house and the date of the alterations are inscribed at the upper left corner at the front of the wing. Interior has a dog-leg staircase with c1902 balustrading of decorative openwork panels. [cf staircase at Northlands House (qv) and the gate panels at The Red House and flanking walls (qv) (qv)]. Ground floor of main range has limestone flags. (Newton, W G: The Life and Works of Ernest Newton, London, 1925).
Listing NGR: SO9592437660
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 148586
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Newton, W, The Work of Ernest Newton RA, (1925)
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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