Cottage of Content
COTTAGE OF CONTENT
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1214130
- Date first listed:
- 11-May-1986
- List Entry Name:
- Cottage of Content
- Statutory Address:
- COTTAGE OF CONTENT
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- Reference:
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1214130
- Date first listed:
- 11-May-1986
- List Entry Name:
- Cottage of Content
- Statutory Address 1:
- COTTAGE OF CONTENT
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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:
- COTTAGE OF CONTENT
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- County of Herefordshire (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Ballingham
- National Grid Reference:
- SO 56328 31021
Details
BALLINGHAM CP CAREY SO 53 SE 2/7 Cottage of Content 11.5.86
II
House, now public house. Probably C17 with later alterations. Sandstone rubble, brick, timber-frame with plaster and painted brick infill, Welsh slate and thatched roofs, brick stacks. Rectangular plan aligned north- west/south-east with cross gable at north-west end. Two storeys. South-west elevation has 2:2 windows, 2- and 3-light late C19 and mid-C20 casements, those to gable front under cambered brick heads, those to right-hand side with glazing bars and top vents, ledged mid-C20 door to left-hand side of gable, two doors, both mid- to late C20, juxtaposed under thatched canopy to centre of main range; exposed lozenge shaped panels with a pair of quadrant braces in gable. Mid-C19 lean-to on left side of gable. North- east elevation has whole of timber-framed gable exposed, four square panels from cill to wall-plate, V-struts above collar and two 2-light early C19 wrought-iron casements to first floor of gable. Interior noted as having heavy ceiling beams to ground floor. The Cottage of Content was previously know as The Mynors or Miners' Arms Inn. (RCHM Vol I, p 22).
Listing NGR: SO5632831021
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 398869
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Inventory of Herefordshire I South West, (1931), 22
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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