Adshead Cottage

ADSHEAD COTTAGE, SCHOOL LANE

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Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1221505
Date first listed:
06-Jul-1984
List Entry Name:
Adshead Cottage
Statutory Address:
ADSHEAD COTTAGE, SCHOOL LANE

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1221505
Date first listed:
06-Jul-1984
List Entry Name:
Adshead Cottage
Statutory Address 1:
ADSHEAD 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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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.

Understanding list entries

Corrections and minor amendments

Location

Statutory Address:
ADSHEAD COTTAGE, SCHOOL LANE

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

District:
Cheshire East (Unitary Authority)
Parish:
Over Alderley
National Grid Reference:
SJ 86884 76705

Details

SJ 87 NE OVER ALDERLEY C.P. SCHOOL LANE (South Side)

5/175 Adshead Cottage

II

Cottage: early C18 with early C19 additions. English garden wall bond red brick on ashlar plinth, Kerridge stone-slate roof, stone ridge and 1 gable brick chimney. 1-storey (and attic), 3-bay front. End bays have 2-light iron casements with lattice leaded glazing under flat brick heads. Central gabled porch has segmental headed entrance in left side and a 4-board front door behind. Interior 3-room plan downstairs with chamfered ceiling beams with some 3-board doors.

Listing NGR: SJ8688476705

Legacy

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Legacy System number:
58341
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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