Toll Bar Cottage
TOLL BAR COTTAGE, BIRKIN LANE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1218502
- Date first listed:
- 16-Sept-1991
- List Entry Name:
- Toll Bar Cottage
- Statutory Address:
- TOLL BAR COTTAGE, BIRKIN LANE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1218502
- Date first listed:
- 16-Sept-1991
- List Entry Name:
- Toll Bar Cottage
- Statutory Address 1:
- TOLL BAR COTTAGE, BIRKIN 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.
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:
- TOLL BAR COTTAGE, BIRKIN LANE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Derbyshire
- District:
- North East Derbyshire (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Ashover
- National Grid Reference:
- SK 35458 65855
Details
ASHOVER SK36NE BIRKIN LANE 1264-0/6/11 (West side) 16/09/91 Toll Bar Cottage II Toll house. Late C18 with C19 additions, altered and extended 1992. Regularly coursed rubble gritstone with quoins, coped gables to earlier part, brick gabled chimneys, and stone and Welsh slate roof coverings. South-east elevation of 2 storeys and 2 bays, the north-east bay an addition. Doorway to north-east end of earlier bay with massive lintel and quoined surround, and door obscured by boarding to the south-west; staggered 2-light flush-mullioned windows, the upper floor window similar to that to the ground floor. Window frames have been removed. Later bay with stacked window openings with flush surrounds, and without window frames. Blocked single-light ground-floor opening with flush surround to south-west end. Rear elevation has long catslide roof over single-storey offshut, with a single-light C18 window with flush surround to rear wall of earlier bay. Lower lean-to range with separate roof to later bay. No access to interior. The Birkin Lane Turnpike was a feeder route which linked with the Chesterfield and Matlock Turnpike.
Listing NGR: SK3545865855
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 393421
- 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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