Blake's Cottage
BLAKE'S COTTAGE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1177363
- Date first listed:
- 17-May-1985
- List Entry Name:
- Blake's Cottage
- Statutory Address:
- BLAKE'S COTTAGE
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- Date:
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- Reference:
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1177363
- Date first listed:
- 17-May-1985
- List Entry Name:
- Blake's Cottage
- Statutory Address 1:
- BLAKE'S 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:
- BLAKE'S COTTAGE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Somerset (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Oake
- National Grid Reference:
- ST 16138 26461
Details
OAKE CP ST12NE HEATHFIELD 4/136 Blake's Cottage (previously listed under Norton Fitzwarren CP) 17.5.85 II Cottage. Late C16 early C17. enlarged C17-C18, restored late C20. Roughcast over cob and rubble, thatched roof,half hipped to left, central brick stack.Plan:possibly gable entry single cell enlarged to 2 cell,lying North-EastSouth-West.One and a half storeys,all C20 casements,2-light dormer rising from eaves right,small central stairlight window,ground floor 2 casements flanking 2 raking buttresses centre, entrance plank door end right, thatched hooded porch,single storey C20 addition right return.Interior:chamfered lintel to fireplace,stairs to left,peaked doorframe between,axial chamfered beam with step and runout stops, lateral chamfered beam in room behind stack.Upper storey not sighted, said to contain one jointed cruck, perhaps rising from ground level. Recent restoration revealed rubble piers at corners of left gable end and ajoining wooden shuttering to cob walls, possibly part of a linhay predicting enlargement of cottage. (V46 Report, unpublished SRD, September 1974).
Listing NGR: ST1613826461
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 271021
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Vernacular Architecture Group Report in September, (1974)
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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