The Cottage Tudor Stores Brittannia Cottage and Adjoining House to South
THE COTTAGE TUDOR STORES BRITTANNIA COTTAGE AND ADJOINING HOUSE TO SOUTH, HIGH STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1171248
- Date first listed:
- 24-Feb-1987
- List Entry Name:
- The Cottage Tudor Stores Brittannia Cottage and Adjoining House to South
- Statutory Address:
- THE COTTAGE TUDOR STORES BRITTANNIA COTTAGE AND ADJOINING HOUSE TO SOUTH, HIGH STREET
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1171248
- Date first listed:
- 24-Feb-1987
- List Entry Name:
- The Cottage Tudor Stores Brittannia Cottage and Adjoining House to South
- Statutory Address 1:
- THE COTTAGE TUDOR STORES BRITTANNIA COTTAGE AND ADJOINING HOUSE TO SOUTH, HIGH STREET
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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:
- THE COTTAGE TUDOR STORES BRITTANNIA COTTAGE AND ADJOINING HOUSE TO SOUTH, HIGH STREET
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Gloucestershire
- District:
- Stroud (District Authority)
- Parish:
- King's Stanley
- National Grid Reference:
- SO 81167 03450
Details
SO 8103 KING'S STANLEY HIGH STREET (east side)
13/15 The Cottage, Tudor Stores, Britannia Cottage and adjoining house to south
GV II
Row of 4 houses, including shop. C15, late C16, C17 and early C19. Timber framing, squared and dressed limestone and coursed rubble limestone. Chimneys mostly rebuilt in brick; stone slate and plain tile roofs. Two-storey with attic to The Cottage and Tudor Stores; 2-storey rear wing to The Cottage. Two-storey house with cross wing (Britannia Cottage); 2-storey house at south end with attic to cross wing. Front: small square framing with close studding to The Cottage and Tudor Stores; projecting gabled bay- window above C20 shop front of Tudor Stores. Scattered C19 and C20 casement fenestration. Projecting gable end of Britannia Cottage to right with single-window casement fenestration; doorway to left with 6-panel door. Weatherboarded gablet at change in roof height to Britannia Cottage. To right range is faced in C19 coursed rubble, with round-arched doorway and very small circular fixed light above. Cottage adjoining to right continues the coursed rubble and C19 fenestration including hipped-roofed porch and bay window. Projecting gable end of south cross wing has C20 casements, segmental-arched to attic. North end: timber framed gable end of main range to right, jettied at attic and formerly at upper floor level with moulded bressumers. Ground floor rebuilt in rubble limestone with casement having timber lintel. Small framed upper floor; close studded attic, each with single casement. Lean-to addition to left. Rear: The Cottage has parapet-gabled rear wing in very large dressed limestone, possibly C15; later fenestration, blocked attic opening with splayed sides appears original. C17 lateral chimney stack to south side of wing. Various lean-to additions to Tudor Stores, Britannia Cottage and adjoining house. Early rubble masonry to rear of main range. Interior of The Cottage has complete timber framing including 4- centred arched doorways. Britannia Cottage has remains of 5 cruck trusses, one complete blade surviving. Some early painted decoration survives on timberwork. House at south end is largely early C19 rebuilding but may have some earlier structure. (N.W. Alcock, Cruck Construction: An Introduction and Catalogue, 1981; and N.M. Herbert, 'King's Stanley' in V.C.H. Glos. x, 1972, pp 242-257)
Listing NGR: SO8116703450
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 131889
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Page, W, The Victoria History of the County of Gloucester, (1972), 242-257
Alcock, N W, Council for British Archaeology Research Report in Cruck Construction An Introduction And Catalogue, (1981)
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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