Lobster Cottage Lobster House

LOBSTER COTTAGE, A64

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Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1173295
Date first listed:
29-Jan-1953
List Entry Name:
Lobster Cottage Lobster House
Statutory Address:
LOBSTER COTTAGE, A64

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1173295
Date first listed:
29-Jan-1953
List Entry Name:
Lobster Cottage Lobster House
Statutory Address 1:
LOBSTER COTTAGE, A64
Statutory Address 2:
LOBSTER HOUSE, A64

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.

Understanding list entries

Corrections and minor amendments

Location

Statutory Address:
LOBSTER COTTAGE, A64
Statutory Address:
LOBSTER HOUSE, A64

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

District:
North Yorkshire (Unitary Authority)
Parish:
Claxton
National Grid Reference:
SE 68403 60446

Details

SE 66 SE CLAXTON A64 (east side) 3/14 Lobster House and Lobster 29 1 53 Cottage

- II

House of several builds, now 2 dwellings. C17 origins, largely rebuilt in C18. Brick in English bond, pantile roof, brick stacks. 2 ranges beneath M-shaped roof. C18 facade with C17 staircase turret incorporated into rear range. 2 storeys, 6 first floor windows with straight joints between second and third, and third and fourth windows. C20 half-glazed door beneath infilled overlight. 3 windows to left, 2 to right, all sashes with glazing bars beneath segmental arches and with 3-fielded-panel shutters. Two course first floor band. Sashes with glazing bars beneath brick arches above. Dentilled eaves course. Tumbled-in gable ends with stone coping and kneelers. End stacks and ridge stacks. Interior: staircase turret contains original staircase with late C17-early C18 splat balusters.

Listing NGR: SE6840360446

Legacy

The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.

Legacy System number:
329458
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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