Thornton Cottage

THORNTON COTTAGE, PUCKPOOL HILL

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Overview

Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1222118
Date first listed:
18-May-1972
List Entry Name:
Thornton Cottage
Statutory Address:
THORNTON COTTAGE, PUCKPOOL HILL

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1222118
Date first listed:
18-May-1972
List Entry Name:
Thornton Cottage
Statutory Address 1:
THORNTON COTTAGE, PUCKPOOL HILL

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:
THORNTON COTTAGE, PUCKPOOL HILL

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

District:
Isle of Wight (Unitary Authority)
Parish:
Nettlestone and Seaview
National Grid Reference:
SZ 61002 91846

Details

PUCKPOOL HILL 1. 1577 Thornton Cottage SZ 69 SW 8/287

II

2. Early C19 "rustic cottage". T plan two storeys, first floor in semi attic rendered and rubble with yellow brick dressings. Hipped gables with ornamental bargeboards. Tiled roof, four chimney stacks grouped to South in yellow brick of Jacobean type. Two grouped to North. The eaves are carried down to the ground floor to South and to North out over ground floor next to gabled bay to form a porch on rustic wood columns. The first floor below gables is jettied and a timber frame applied. Three light casements to first floor, four light to ground floor with glazing bars. Each garden front central gabled bay flanked by single storey pro- jecting gabled bays, that to the South incorporated on one side in Southern pitch of main roof curved down. Five light casement in centre on first floor, two light casements to flanking bays. The centre of the ground floor projects with lean-to roof.

Listing NGR: SZ6100291846

Legacy

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Legacy System number:
414204
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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