Sundial Cottage
SUNDIAL COTTAGE, MAIN STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1225875
- Date first listed:
- 23-May-1967
- List Entry Name:
- Sundial Cottage
- Statutory Address:
- SUNDIAL COTTAGE, MAIN STREET
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- Reference:
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1225875
- Date first listed:
- 23-May-1967
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 12-Oct-1988
- List Entry Name:
- Sundial Cottage
- Statutory Address 1:
- SUNDIAL COTTAGE, MAIN STREET
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:
- SUNDIAL COTTAGE, MAIN STREET
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- North Northamptonshire (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Yarwell
- National Grid Reference:
- TL 07052 97811
Details
YARWELL MAIN STREET TL0797 (North side) 15/228 Sundial Cottage 23/05/67 (Formerly listed as Sundial House) GV II Shown as Chareen on Ordnance Survey map. House. C17 modified C19. Regular coursed limestone with ashlar banding and dressings. Collyweston slate roof. 3-unit plan, with rear wing. Single storey with attic. Main front of 4 bays, 3-window range. Centre 2 bays are ashlar, and break forward separately. These projections were originally intended to continue at roof level to form gabled eaves dormers; probably removed C19. Bay to right of centre has C19 tripartite sash window set in and breaking through a moulded stone surround, formerly a stone mullion window. Chamfered plinth below window and moulded string course above. Similar tripartite sash window, to far right, has moulded stone surround with cornice over. C19 casement window, to far left, has similar surround with cornice over. Small single-light window, to left of centre, has single-light C19 casement window, above, set under eaves. Bay to left of centre has a 6-panelled door with a moulded stone surround and 4-centred arch-head. Flanking single-light windows, with moulded stone surrounds, now blocked. Chamfered plinth below and moulded stone cornice above. 3 hipped eaves dormers with C19 casement windows. Ashlar gable parapets and ashlar ridge and end stacks. Left gable has an inscribed sundial. Rear elevation has a projecting wing, to left, with C19 casement windows and a C19 oven, with hipped roof, to right. Fragments of chamfered masonry reset to centre of range. Interior not inspected but noted as having ogee moulded spine beam in centre room with a chip carved rosette in the soffitt. Plank door with moulded battens and original hinges. (RCHM: An Inventory of Architectural Monuments in North Northamptonshire: p174)
Listing NGR: TL0705297811
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 422894
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Other
Inventory of Architectural Monuments in North Northamptonshire, (1984)
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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