The Gatehouse Cottage
THE GATEHOUSE COTTAGE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1223062
- Date first listed:
- 17-Feb-1985
- List Entry Name:
- The Gatehouse Cottage
- Statutory Address:
- THE GATEHOUSE COTTAGE
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- Date:
- 2003-04-17
- Reference:
- IOE01/08894/16
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1223062
- Date first listed:
- 17-Feb-1985
- List Entry Name:
- The Gatehouse Cottage
- Statutory Address 1:
- THE GATEHOUSE COTTAGE
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:
- THE GATEHOUSE COTTAGE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Shropshire (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Withington
- National Grid Reference:
- SJ 57517 13048
Details
SJ 51 SE WITHINGTON C.P. WITHINGTON
4/117 The Gatehouse - Cottage
GV II
Cottage. Probably C17. Rendered timber frame with slate roof. 2 framed bays. External brick end stack to west and rendered integral end stack to east. One storey and gable-lit attic. Framing: square panels. South front: segmental-headed late C19 wooden cross-window to right and probably early C20 wooden casement to left flanking pair of boarded doors, that to right with segmental head. North front with small square window off-centre to left. Interior: central collar and tie-beam truss (tie-beam cut through at later date); roof with single purlins and windbraces; central framed partition with wattle and daub panels; first floor rests on chamfered plates attached to the frame (possible later insertion); chamfered and ogee-stopped beams; chamfered jamb to doorway in cross-wall; large open fireplace, and small late C19 grate upstairs; newel staircase adjoining stack in north- east corner.
Listing NGR: SJ5751713048
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 418220
- 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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