Rookery Cottage
ROOKERY COTTAGE, CHURCH STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1213882
- Date first listed:
- 07-Aug-1952
- List Entry Name:
- Rookery Cottage
- Statutory Address:
- ROOKERY COTTAGE, CHURCH STREET
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1213882
- Date first listed:
- 07-Aug-1952
- List Entry Name:
- Rookery Cottage
- Statutory Address 1:
- ROOKERY COTTAGE, CHURCH 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:
- ROOKERY COTTAGE, CHURCH STREET
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Dorset (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Burton Bradstock
- National Grid Reference:
- SY 48895 89539
Details
SY 4889 BURTON BRADSTOCK CHURCH STREET
8/82 Rookery Cottage 7.8.52 GV II
Detached cottage. c.C15 and C17. Rubble stone walls, 2 sleeper- buttresses at left hand. Thatch roof with gable-ends. Brick stacks at end gables. 1½-2 storeys. 4 windows, 2-light wooden casements with glazing-bars. Wooden cills and lintels. Plank door with 3 glass lights, C19. Wooden lintel over. Interior: cross-passage with plank-and-muntin screen on left side, C16. Stone spiral stair in corner oflower end room, beside fireplace. Open fireplace with large chamfered lintel with filleted stops. Jointed-cruck trusses, with early purlins. Projecting stack on east gable wall with 2 sets of set-offs. Open fireplace inside with similar lintel. Keeping-place in beside. Ground-floor ceiling-beams, heavily chamfered, probably, early C17. RCHM Dorset I, p 60 (24).
Listing NGR: SY4889289540
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 398546
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Inventory of Dorset, (1952), 60
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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