FOX COTTAGE, SCHOOL HOUSE AND FERN COTTAGE LITTLECOTE SCHOOL COTTAGES

FOX COTTAGE, SCHOOL HOUSE AND FERN COTTAGE

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1179329
Date first listed:: 11-Oct-1985
List Entry Name:: FOX COTTAGE, SCHOOL HOUSE AND FERN COTTAGE LITTLECOTE SCHOOL COTTAGES
Statutory Address:: FOX COTTAGE, SCHOOL HOUSE AND FERN COTTAGE

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Date:: 2001-06-30
Reference:: IOE01/06195/24
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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1179329
Date first listed:: 11-Oct-1985
List Entry Name:: FOX COTTAGE, SCHOOL HOUSE AND FERN COTTAGE LITTLECOTE SCHOOL COTTAGES
Statutory Address 1:: FOX COTTAGE, SCHOOL HOUSE AND FERN COTTAGE
Statutory Address 2:: LITTLECOTE, 2
Statutory Address 3:: SCHOOL COTTAGES, 2

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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This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

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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Location

Statutory Address:: FOX COTTAGE, SCHOOL HOUSE AND FERN COTTAGE
Statutory Address:: LITTLECOTE, 2
Statutory Address:: SCHOOL COTTAGES, 2

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

County:: Hampshire
District:: East Hampshire (District Authority)
Parish:: Farringdon
National Park:: SOUTH DOWNS
National Grid Reference:: SU 71461 35040

Details

SU 73 NW FARRINGDON UPPER FARRINGDON

2/62 Fox Cottage, Littlecote (No 2, School Cottages) School House and Fern Cottage

GV II

A row of 4 different cottages. C17, C18 and C20. At the east end Fern Cottage is a small 2-storeyed house of the C18, with a plain tiled roof, brick walls of Flemish bond with cambered ground-floor openings, one upper and 2 lower casements, and a boarded door in a plain frame. At the west end the largest and oldest unit is 1 storey and attic, 2 above 3 windows with a west end outshot; thatched roof with one eyebrow dormer, the lower part of the east side being tiled, with a gabled dormer. The walls have exposed massive timber framing, with plaster and brick (herringbone) infill, the east now mostly painted brickwork. Casements, and plain doors, the east side with a tiled canopy showing that this end of the former cottage has been made into a separate dwelling Littlecote). The middle building (old School House) was a hall school (1844 to 1925), but now has an upper floor with 3 dormers;the top part of the roof is thatched, with a central bellcote, the lower is tiled, with 3 flat-roofed dormers, the walls being C20 brickwork. Casements, and a doorway within a porch.

Listing NGR: SU7116735186

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Legacy System number:: 142349
Legacy System:: LBS

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This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.