Holly Cottage
HOLLY COTTAGE, 8, OXEN ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1202945
- Date first listed:
- 06-Sept-1974
- List Entry Name:
- Holly Cottage
- Statutory Address:
- HOLLY COTTAGE, 8, OXEN ROAD
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1202945
- Date first listed:
- 06-Sept-1974
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 06-Dec-1993
- List Entry Name:
- Holly Cottage
- Statutory Address 1:
- HOLLY COTTAGE, 8, OXEN ROAD
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:
- HOLLY COTTAGE, 8, OXEN ROAD
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Somerset (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Crewkerne
- National Grid Reference:
- ST4403509643
Details
CREWKERNE
ST4409 OXEN ROAD
876-1/7/151 (East side)
06/09/74 No.8
Holly Cottage
(Formerly Listed as:
OXEN ROAD
(East side)
No.8
Myrtle Cottage)
II
House. c1840. Ham Hill stone ashlar, stepped stone coping,
eaves cornice, and moulded kneelers to slate roof with brick
stacks to gable ends, that to the left is truncated.
Double-depth plan with rear extension. 2 storeys; symmetrical
3-window range. All windows are C20 horned 2/2-pane sashes.
The ground-floor has a segmental arch over a recessed C20
door, flanked by wide segmental-arched recesses containing the
windows, below a platband; the cills span the recesses. Flat
stone arches over first-floor sashes beneath moulded cornice.
INTERIOR: the central passage has stairs leading off it
between the rooms to the left, under an elliptical arch. To
the rear of the main building, now inside, is a Tuscan-style
pillar to a former porch, its pair is removed to the garden.
HISTORY: it is said that this house was once the Valliant
Soldier Inn.
Listing NGR: ST4403509643
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 390428
- 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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