High Town Cottage
HIGH TOWN COTTAGE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1214911
- Date first listed:
- 26-Mar-1987
- List Entry Name:
- High Town Cottage
- Statutory Address:
- HIGH TOWN COTTAGE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1214911
- Date first listed:
- 26-Mar-1987
- List Entry Name:
- High Town Cottage
- Statutory Address 1:
- HIGH TOWN COTTAGE
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:
- HIGH TOWN COTTAGE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- County of Herefordshire (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Peterstow
- National Grid Reference:
- SO 56235 24457
Details
PETERSTOW CP SO 52 SE 6/121 High Town Cottage
GV II
Cottage. Probably Cl7 to early C18 with later alterations and additions. Sandstone rubble plinth, timber-frame with brick infill, mostly pebbledashed, asbestos slate roof and external side stack with brick shaft. Two bays aligned roughly north/south. Two storeys. West elevation has one window, 2-light casement to left. Ground floor has one small 4-paned window to left- hand side and 4-light steel casement to right. Four-panelled early C20 door under flat canopy to left of centre. South gable has exposed timber-framing three square panels high from high cill to wall-plate and V-struts above collar supported by two posts. Attached to left is a brick lean-to extension. Interior has heavy chamfered ceiling beams to ground floor. (RCHM Vol I, p 218).
Listing NGR: SO5623524457
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 399713
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Inventory of Herefordshire I South West, (1931), 218
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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