Homestead Cottage

HOMESTEAD COTTAGE, YATTENDON LANE

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Overview

Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1214099
Date first listed:
29-Nov-1983
List Entry Name:
Homestead Cottage
Statutory Address:
HOMESTEAD COTTAGE, YATTENDON LANE

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1214099
Date first listed:
29-Nov-1983
List Entry Name:
Homestead Cottage
Statutory Address 1:
HOMESTEAD COTTAGE, YATTENDON LANE

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.

Understanding list entries

Corrections and minor amendments

Location

Statutory Address:
HOMESTEAD COTTAGE, YATTENDON LANE

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

District:
West Berkshire (Unitary Authority)
Parish:
Yattendon
National Grid Reference:
SU 55716 74463

Details

YATTENDON YATTENDON LANE (north side) SU 5574 11/31 Homestead Cottage GV II Cottage. Late C19 with Circa 1900 addition to south and small C20 addition to east, by Alfred Waterhouse. Red brick, some first floor timber framing to south with brick nogging and plaster infill in gable end. Toothed verges, gable to east with corbelled dovecote in apex. Old tile roof, lower over addition to south. Gabled semi dormer with 2-light segmental headed casement to west in southern wing, gabled semi dormer with half glazed segmental headed loft door to south in stable wing to west, central ridge stack, and end stack to north. T-plan. 1½ storeys. South front: first floor 3-light casement in gable end, and ground floor 2-light segmental headed casement below. West front: ground floor 2-light segmental headed casement off-centre to left and segmental headed doorway to left with half glazed door. East front: first floor 2-light casement to left, ground floor 2-light segmental headed casement off-centre to left, and segmental headed doorway to left with boarded door and tiled lean-to porch. Later one-storey lean-to to right with small casement. First floor 2-light segmental headed casement in gable end of projecting wing to right, and ground floor 4-light segmental headed casement below. Stable wing: central segmental headed doorway with 2 leaf boarded door, flanked by two 2-light segmental headed casements.

Listing NGR: SU5571674463

Legacy

The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.

Legacy System number:
398619
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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