Thatched Cottage

Thatched Cottage, Castle Street, Melbourne, DE73 8DY

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1204966
Date first listed:: 10-Nov-1967
List Entry Name:: Thatched Cottage
Statutory Address:: Thatched Cottage, Castle Street, Melbourne, DE73 8DY

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1204966
Date first listed:: 10-Nov-1967
List Entry Name:: Thatched Cottage
Statutory Address 1:: Thatched Cottage, Castle Street, Melbourne, DE73 8DY

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

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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.

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Location

Statutory Address:: Thatched Cottage, Castle Street, Melbourne, DE73 8DY

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

County:: Derbyshire
District:: South Derbyshire (District Authority)
Parish:: Melbourne
National Grid Reference:: SK3881825202

Details

This list entry was subject to a Minor Amendment on 17 March 2021 to update the name and address, and to reformat the text to current standards

SK 38/3925 6/158

PARISH OF MELBOURNE CASTLE STREET Thatched Cottage

(Formerly listed as Nos 47, 49 and 51, POTTER STREET (North Side))

10.11.67

GV II Three cottages, now one. Late C16 with numerous later alterations. Square panel timber framing on stone plinth with painted brick nogging and corner braces to upper panels, partly rebuilt in red brick. Thatched roof with gable brick stack to east and one brick ridge stack.

Single storey plus attics and six bays. Three eastern bays have a considerable amount of timber framing surviving but western bays have been rebuilt. Easternmost bay has a segment headed doorcase with plank door to west and a two-light horizontal sliding glazing bar sash to east. There are two similar three-light windows beyond the door to west and beyond again there is a segment headed plank door, a three-light casement window below similar head and C20 garage doors. These latter openings have a dentilled eaves band above. Westernmost bay has raised brick ground floor with a central segment headed two-light horizontal sliding glazing bar sash. Above there is an elongated eyebrow dormer with two two-light windows below, that to west a sliding sash and that to east a casement. Beyond to east there are four more eyebrow dormers, each with a small paned two-light casement.

Listing NGR: SK3881825202

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Legacy System number:: 83142
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.