Orchard Cottage

ORCHARD COTTAGE, SCHOOL LANE

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Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1219445
Date first listed:
06-Jul-1984
List Entry Name:
Orchard Cottage
Statutory Address:
ORCHARD COTTAGE, SCHOOL LANE

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1219445
Date first listed:
06-Jul-1984
List Entry Name:
Orchard Cottage
Statutory Address 1:
ORCHARD COTTAGE, SCHOOL 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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Corrections and minor amendments

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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Corrections and minor amendments

Location

Statutory Address:
ORCHARD COTTAGE, SCHOOL LANE

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

District:
Buckinghamshire (Unitary Authority)
Parish:
Stoke Hammond
National Grid Reference:
SP 88001 29727

Details

SP 82 NE STOKE HAMMOND SCHOOL LANE

3/79 Orchard Cottage

II

House. C16-C17 bay, extended one bay to right C19, with C17 outbuilding, possibly older and now incorporated into house, to left. Original bay is timber framed with whitewashed render infill, brick and stone plinth. Right bay is of whitewashed brick. Thatched roof with C19 ornamental board eaves, brick coping to right gable, and rebuilt central brick chimney 1½ storeys. Ground floor has paired wooden casement to left and C20 paired leaded casement to right. First floor has 3-light windows in thatch, the left C20 and leaded, the right wooden with an arched top and central leaded pane. Central C19 gabled porch of whitewashed brick with tiled roof, weatherboarded gable and flush-panelled door. Interior to left bay has some curved braces and a stop-chamfered spine beam. Former outbuilding to left is much rebuilt and has timber frame with whitewashed brick and render infill, weatherboard below the eaves, corrugated asbestos roof and irregular wooden casements to main floor and basement.

Listing NGR: SP8800129727

Legacy

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Legacy System number:
350821
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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