Middle Cottage Post Office Cottage
MIDDLE COTTAGE, MAIN STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1190835
- Date first listed:
- 02-Feb-1990
- List Entry Name:
- Middle Cottage Post Office Cottage
- Statutory Address:
- MIDDLE COTTAGE, MAIN STREET
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- Date:
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- Reference:
- IOE01/08467/07
- Rights:
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1190835
- Date first listed:
- 02-Feb-1990
- List Entry Name:
- Middle Cottage Post Office Cottage
- Statutory Address 1:
- MIDDLE COTTAGE, MAIN STREET
- Statutory Address 2:
- POST OFFICE COTTAGE, MAIN STREET
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:
- MIDDLE COTTAGE, MAIN STREET
- Statutory Address:
- POST OFFICE COTTAGE, MAIN STREET
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- North Yorkshire (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Cowesby
- National Park:
- North York Moors
- National Grid Reference:
- SE 46587 89843
Details
COWESBY MAIN STREET SE 4689 (EAST SIDE) POST OFFICE COTTAGE 9/19 and MIDDLE COTTAGE - II House, now 2 dwellings. Mid-late C18 with C19 and C20 additions arid alterations. Coursed squared herringbone-tooled stone, random nibble to C20 part; pantile roofs. Lobby-entry plan, 2 storeys, 4 bays with C19 bay added to right (which with bay 4 now forms Post Office Cottage), and C20 single-storey addition to far right (not of special interest). Main range: central C20 part-glazed door with herringbone-tooled lintel. Flanking windows (two on each floor) have stone lintels and cills, bay 1-3 having 12-pane side-sliding sashes and bay 4 having C20 casements, the lst-floor window opening widened. Added bay has half-glazed C20 door with stone lintel and C20 casement in widened opening above. Shaped kneelers and ashlar coping overall. To right end of original house corniced stone stack, heightened in white C20 brick; and rebuilt central ridge stack. Rear: flat-roofed C20 extension on right not of interest. Small, square, central, lst-floor light and another at eaves on left. Interior of Middle Cottage not inspected but said to retain original central back-to-back fireplaces. Post Office Cottage formerly served as a Post Office.
Listing NGR: SE4658789843
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 332546
- 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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