Mermaid Cottage
MERMAID COTTAGE, CHURCH LANE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1171809
- Date first listed:
- 26-Nov-1986
- List Entry Name:
- Mermaid Cottage
- Statutory Address:
- MERMAID COTTAGE, CHURCH LANE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1171809
- Date first listed:
- 26-Nov-1986
- List Entry Name:
- Mermaid Cottage
- Statutory Address 1:
- MERMAID COTTAGE, CHURCH 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:
- MERMAID COTTAGE, CHURCH LANE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Gloucestershire
- District:
- Tewkesbury (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Minsterworth
- National Grid Reference:
- SO 77664 16801
Details
MINSTERWORTH CHURCH LANE SO 71 NE (south side) 5/102 Mermaid Cottage II Small house. C15, altered late C16, C17, C19, C20. Brick nogged timber-framing; Flemish-bond brickwork, asbestos-slate roof. Four bays, 1 1/2 storeys, one room deep. Framing on left 2 panels high: end brick gable laps corner post, long brace to sill. To right 2- light casement; long, half-glazed porch, door on left, covering front door. Cambered timber head for blocked door to right, 2- light casement over. To right framing 3 panels high, slighter timbers. Half-glazed door; 2-light casement in rectangular oriel. Brick lean-to against right gable, boarded door. Above 3 lean-to dormers, left pair 2-light casements, right 3-light. Brick chimney on ridge, right gable: formerly lateral chimney on rear on left half. Interior: full cruck truss to left of door from porch, similar for half-hip to right. Heavily-moulded longitudinal and wall beams for inserted floor, left 2 bays (late C16); heavy chamfer to cross beam both floors right section. Two-bay cruck cottage, later floored; extended 2 narrower bays to right C17.
Listing NGR: SO7766416801
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 134396
- 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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