Standish Cottage
STANDISH COTTAGE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1177695
- Date first listed:
- 07-Apr-1986
- List Entry Name:
- Standish Cottage
- Statutory Address:
- STANDISH COTTAGE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1177695
- Date first listed:
- 07-Apr-1986
- List Entry Name:
- Standish Cottage
- Statutory Address 1:
- STANDISH 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:
- STANDISH COTTAGE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Shropshire (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Smethcott
- National Grid Reference:
- SO 43736 99470
Details
SO 49 NW SMETHCOTT C.P. PICKLESCOTT
3/95 Standish Cottage -
GV II
Farmhouse, now house. Mid-C17 with mid- to late C19 and C20 alterations and additions. Timber framed with painted brick nogging, partly rendered and partly rebuilt and extended in painted sandstone rubble and brick; plain tile roof. Hall range of one framed bay plus later bay to right, and projecting 2-bay gabled cross wing to left. Framing: square panels (3 from sole plate to wall plate) with long straight tension braces; gable end of cross wing has pseudo carved brackets at first-floor level and tie-beam truss with 2 collars, queen struts and v-struts. One storey and attic. Three C20 raking dormers to right, each with 3-light leaded wooden casements; large brick ridge stack at junction with cross wing. Hall range to left with small C20 casement to left, small segmental-headed 2-light sealed window in later kitchen to right, and central rendered porch with catslide roof; small segmental-headed 2-light C20 wooden casement to front, and segmental-headed boarded door in left-hand return; cross-wing to left with 3-light C20 leaded wooden attic and ground-floor casements. Interior: hall range contains chamfered spine beam with plain stops, and large open fireplace with ogee-stopped chamfered lintel, bread oven with cast-iron door, and spit arm; cross-wing contains timber framed cross wall and pair of chamfered beams with ogee stops. Roof with large purlins and straight wind braces. It is possible that the cross wing formerly extended further to the rear as the end bay is short, the back wall has been rebuilt in stone and brick and the gable has been half-hipped. Standish Cottage was formerly known as Top House Farmhouse. The house forms part of a small farmstead group also including barns to the west (q.v.). V.C.H., Vol. VIII, p.150.
Listing NGR: SO4373699470
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 259636
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Elmington, C R, The Victoria History of the County of Shropshire, (1989), 150
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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