Kingfisher Cottage

KINGFISHER COTTAGE, MAIN STREET

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Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1205469
Date first listed:
12-Oct-1987
List Entry Name:
Kingfisher Cottage
Statutory Address:
KINGFISHER COTTAGE, MAIN STREET
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Official list entry

Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1205469
Date first listed:
12-Oct-1987
List Entry Name:
Kingfisher Cottage
Statutory Address 1:
KINGFISHER 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.

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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.

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Location

Statutory Address:
KINGFISHER COTTAGE, MAIN STREET

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

County:
Lincolnshire
District:
North Kesteven (District Authority)
Parish:
Blankney
National Grid Reference:
TF 06756 60196

Details

BLANKNEY MAIN STREET TF 0660 (west side) 7/13 Kingfisher Cottage

GV II

House. c1835 by W A Nicholson. Coursed limestone rubble with ashlar dressings. Slate roofs with ashlar coped gables with moulded kneelers and finials. A row of 4, 3 and 2 moulded and chamfered ashlar gable stacks, plus a row of 3 similar white brick and ashlar gable stacks. Chamfered ashlar plinth, first floor moulded band and flush quoins. Single storey plus attics. T-plan. East front has central shaped gabled projecting porch, with moulded, 4 centred arched, ashlar door surround with 4 panel door and strapwork gable. Projecting gabled cross wing to the left with a canted bay window with an ornate strapwork parapet. To the right a 2-light window with strapwork gable and beyond a single storey wing with a 3-light window under a shaped through eaves gable. Above a 2-light window to the left, with a strapwork gable, and to the right a through eaves shaped gable dormer with a 2-light window. The south front has two 3-light windows with strapwork gables, and above 3 continuous, through eaves, shaped gable dormers, each with a 2-light window, the central window projects slightly and is supported on a shaped bracket. All the windows have glazing bar casements, in moulded ashlar surrounds, the lower windows have mullions and transoms, those above have only mullions. This building is part of the complete estate village built by the Chaplin family of Blankney Hall.

Listing NGR: TF0675660196

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Legacy System number:
358284
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.

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