Hector Cottage Hector House

HECTOR COTTAGE, 12, HECTOR STREET

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Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1197862
Date first listed:
06-May-1976
List Entry Name:
Hector Cottage Hector House
Statutory Address:
HECTOR COTTAGE, 12, HECTOR STREET
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Official list entry

Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1197862
Date first listed:
06-May-1976
Date of most recent amendment:
20-Dec-1993
List Entry Name:
Hector Cottage Hector House
Statutory Address 1:
HECTOR COTTAGE, 12, HECTOR STREET
Statutory Address 2:
HECTOR HOUSE, 10, HECTOR STREET

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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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Corrections and minor amendments

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.

Understanding list entries

Corrections and minor amendments

Location

Statutory Address:
HECTOR COTTAGE, 12, HECTOR STREET
Statutory Address:
HECTOR HOUSE, 10, HECTOR STREET

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

District:
Westmorland and Furness (Unitary Authority)
Parish:
Non Civil Parish
National Grid Reference:
SD 21084 70575

Details

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SD27SW HECTOR STREET, New Barns 708-1/4/72 (East side) 06/05/76 Nos.10 AND 12 Hector House (10) and Hector Cottage (12) (Formerly Listed as: HECTOR STREET Hector House) (Formerly Listed as: HECTOR STREET No.12)

GV II

House, now 2 dwellings. Probably C18, refronted C19. Scored stucco, graduated slate roof. 2 storeys, 3 bays with wing to rear left (now Hector Cottage) and additions in the angle. Plinth, raised quoins. Central doorway has part-glazed panelled door in ashlar architrave with cornice on consoles; 'HECTOR HOUSE' on plaque above. C20 casements with glazing bars in shaped surrounds with projecting sills. Ogee, cast-iron gutter on blocks; shaped kneelers (copings removed); end stacks. Left return: gable of Hector House has small window with surround as front. Hector Cottage in rear wing: part-glazed door in ashlar surround with shaped stone brackets to later canopy; C20 casement to left and another to 1st floor centre, both have surrounds as front to openings of earlier proportions; end stacks.

Listing NGR: SD2108470575

Legacy

The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.

Legacy System number:
388476
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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