May Cottage May Cottage and Winniford Cottage Winniford Cottage
MAY COTTAGE AND WINNIFORD COTTAGE, MAIN STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1215432
- Date first listed:
- 05-Sept-1960
- List Entry Name:
- May Cottage May Cottage and Winniford Cottage Winniford Cottage
- Statutory Address:
- MAY COTTAGE AND WINNIFORD COTTAGE, MAIN STREET
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- Date:
- 2006-03-28
- Reference:
- IOE01/15513/16
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1215432
- Date first listed:
- 05-Sept-1960
- List Entry Name:
- May Cottage May Cottage and Winniford Cottage Winniford Cottage
- Statutory Address 1:
- MAY COTTAGE AND WINNIFORD COTTAGE, MAIN STREET
- Statutory Address 2:
- MAY COTTAGE, MAIN STREET
- Statutory Address 3:
- WINNIFORD COTTAGE, MAIN 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:
- MAY COTTAGE AND WINNIFORD COTTAGE, MAIN STREET
- Statutory Address:
- MAY COTTAGE, MAIN STREET
- Statutory Address:
- WINNIFORD COTTAGE, MAIN STREET
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Dorset (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Chideock
- National Grid Reference:
- SY 42482 92808
Details
SY 4292 CHIDEOCK MAIN STREET NORTH SIDE
9/61 May Cottage and 5.9.60 Winniford Cottage. G.V. II
Two attached cottages. C17, with later refenestration. Coursed Lias stone walls. Thatch roof with gable end at left hand and attached at right. One C20 brick stack at left gable. 2 storeys. 3 windows, enlarged wooden case- ments (2 lights) to ground floor. Small 2 light wooden casements above, -all with glazing bars. 2 upper windows in the west gable wall, with wooden lintels. Front doors, beside each other, at centre. Loft with C20 recess-panel door. Hipped thatch canopy over carried on wooden posts. Right with a wide plank door and heavy wooden lintel over. Interior: Winniford has plank and muntin partitions on both sides of a cross-passage, c.1600. Open fireplace in room on right, stone Jambs, chamfered with segmental lintel, stop-chamfered. Mid- chamfered beam with unusual roll-and-tongue stops.
Listing NGR: SY4248692809
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 400650
- 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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