Cow House Approximately 25 Metres to North West of Acorn Cottage
COW HOUSE APPROXIMATELY 25 METRES TO NORTH WEST OF ACORN COTTAGE, OFFOXEY ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1176695
- Date first listed:
- 29-Aug-1984
- List Entry Name:
- Cow House Approximately 25 Metres to North West of Acorn Cottage
- Statutory Address:
- COW HOUSE APPROXIMATELY 25 METRES TO NORTH WEST OF ACORN COTTAGE, OFFOXEY ROAD
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- Date:
- 2002-08-17
- Reference:
- IOE01/07683/24
- Rights:
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1176695
- Date first listed:
- 29-Aug-1984
- List Entry Name:
- Cow House Approximately 25 Metres to North West of Acorn Cottage
- Statutory Address 1:
- COW HOUSE APPROXIMATELY 25 METRES TO NORTH WEST OF ACORN COTTAGE, OFFOXEY ROAD
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:
- COW HOUSE APPROXIMATELY 25 METRES TO NORTH WEST OF ACORN COTTAGE, OFFOXEY ROAD
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Staffordshire
- District:
- South Staffordshire (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Brewood and Coven
- National Grid Reference:
- SJ 83561 09278
Details
SJ 80 NW TONG C.P. OFFOXEY ROAD, Bishop's Wood (North side)
7/2 Cow House approximately - 25 metres to North-West of Acorn Cottage.
GV II
Cow House. Circa 1818. Coursed rubble with gault and grey brick window details,and old tile roof. Gothic style. 1 storey. Coped battlemented parapeted gable ends. 2 straight-sided arched windows with crude brick tracery flanking central blocked entrance with lintel and open straight- sided arched tympanum; inserted boarded door to right partly destroying the right-hand window. End elevations have large straight-sided arched blind windows with Y-traceried brick panels. Stone plaque to South inscribed: "RANDZ de VACHE". This is one of a series of eccentric outbuildings erected on the Tong Estate by George Durant the younger. Acorn Cottage to South (not listed) is dated 1818. (qv. Pig Sty to North of Acorn Cottage, fowl house to West of Vauxhall Farmhouse, kennels to East of the Red House, etc.). G. Griffith, History of Tong and Boscobel, 1894, pp. 154-61; D. H. Robinson, The Wandering Worfe, Waine Research Publications, p.60.
Listing NGR: SJ8355809278
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 255328
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Robinson, D H, The Wandering Worfe, (1980), 60
Griffith, G, History of Tong and Boscobel, (1894), 154-161
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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