High Croft Cottage
HIGH CROFT COTTAGE, 51, PROVIDENCE PLACE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1203107
- Date first listed:
- 16-Jan-1951
- List Entry Name:
- High Croft Cottage
- Statutory Address:
- HIGH CROFT COTTAGE, 51, PROVIDENCE PLACE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1203107
- Date first listed:
- 16-Jan-1951
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 17-May-1993
- List Entry Name:
- High Croft Cottage
- Statutory Address 1:
- HIGH CROFT COTTAGE, 51, PROVIDENCE PLACE
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:
- HIGH CROFT COTTAGE, 51, PROVIDENCE PLACE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Dorset (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Portland
- National Grid Reference:
- SY 68676 71243
Details
PORTLAND
SY6871 PROVIDENCE PLACE, Weston 969-1/4/181 (East side) 16/01/51 No.51 High Croft Cottage (Formerly Listed as: WESTON ROAD No.51 Providence Place)
GV II
Small detached house. C17, much altered C19 and C20. Rendered stonework, thatched roof. Front to road (W) has broad coped gable to right, and smaller raised hipped gable to left. Two-room cross-passage plan, but interior altered in C20. One storey and attic; 2-windowed. Thatch swept down between and either side of gables; 6-pane sashes above 6-pane C20 windows to ground floor. Near centre is small C19 4-panel door, now glazed, down 2 steps within stone-cheeked porch with flat slab roof. Back has gable to left with small square light to attic, and to right a very small eyebrow dormer over a narrow light, a door, and a small recessed-chamfer light. The C20 wing to left. Interior not inspected, but reported as substantially modified in C20. (Royal Commission on Historical Monuments: Dorset: London: 1970-: 259).
Listing NGR: SY6867671243
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 382005
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Inventory of Dorset, (1970), 259
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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