Wattle Cottage
20 AND 21, HIGH STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1208521
- Date first listed:
- 07-Aug-1972
- List Entry Name:
- Wattle Cottage
- Statutory Address:
- 20 AND 21, HIGH STREET
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1208521
- Date first listed:
- 07-Aug-1972
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 31-Dec-1993
- List Entry Name:
- Wattle Cottage
- Statutory Address 1:
- 20 AND 21, HIGH STREET
- Statutory Address 2:
- WATTLE COTTAGE, HIGH 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.
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:
- 20 AND 21, HIGH STREET
- Statutory Address:
- WATTLE COTTAGE, HIGH STREET
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- County of Herefordshire (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Kington
- National Grid Reference:
- SO 29659 56633
Details
KINGTON
SO2956 HIGH STREET 643-1/1/108 (North West side) 07/08/72 Nos.20, 21 and Wattle Cottage (Formerly Listed as: HIGH STREET (North West side) No.21)
GV II
Shops and dwellings. C17. Coursed rubble; roughcast; stucco; Welsh slate roof, with C20 composite tile gable to left. 2 storeys, attic and cellars; 4-window range: to right, C20 2/2 sashes with round-headed light in gable, over; to left, C20 lights, with C20 light to gable. Early C20 shopfront to right, with central part-glazed double-doors recessed between plate-glass windows with canted returns; to left, early C20 shopfront with central half-glazed door, flanked by plain sashes. Right returned side: leaded light. Left returned side: rubble; roughcast to 1st floor; C20 entrance and casement over. Wing to rear (Wattle Cottage): late C17 timber-framing, with stone tile roof and central rubble ridge stack; C20 doors and casements. INTERIOR: No.21: exposed ceiling beams, some chamfered; C17 timber-framing; collared trusses; altered roof pitch to north-east; C20-inserted dogleg staircase with barley-sugar twist balusters.
Listing NGR: SO2966656632
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 385872
- 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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