Gardener's Cottage About 350 Metres North West of Laverstoke House

GARDENER'S COTTAGE ABOUT 350 METRES NORTH WEST OF LAVERSTOKE HOUSE, LAVERSTOKE PARK

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Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1232052
Date first listed:
19-Nov-1993
List Entry Name:
Gardener's Cottage About 350 Metres North West of Laverstoke House
Statutory Address:
GARDENER'S COTTAGE ABOUT 350 METRES NORTH WEST OF LAVERSTOKE HOUSE, LAVERSTOKE PARK

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1232052
Date first listed:
19-Nov-1993
List Entry Name:
Gardener's Cottage About 350 Metres North West of Laverstoke House
Statutory Address 1:
GARDENER'S COTTAGE ABOUT 350 METRES NORTH WEST OF LAVERSTOKE HOUSE, LAVERSTOKE PARK

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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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Location

Statutory Address:
GARDENER'S COTTAGE ABOUT 350 METRES NORTH WEST OF LAVERSTOKE HOUSE, LAVERSTOKE PARK

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

County:
Hampshire
District:
Basingstoke and Deane (District Authority)
Parish:
Laverstoke
National Grid Reference:
SU 49057 49262

Details

The following building shall be added:

SU 44 NE LAVERSTOKE LAVERSTOKE PARK

185-0/3/10003 Gardener's Cottage about 350 metres north -west of Laverstoke House

II

Bothy. Circa 1854 by P.C.Hardwick for Melville Portal MP of Laverstoke House (qv); altered and extended in circa late C19 or early C20. Red brick and flint ground floor and scalloped tile-hanging above. Half-hipped and gabled roof with bands of shaped tiles and ornate bargeboards, the finials and ridge cresting missing. Central axial brick stack with flanking octagonal shafts with moulded bases and caps.

T-shaped on plan with tower and porch on side of right-hand (north) cross-wing. In the late C19 or early C20 the loggia under the front of the cross-wing was filled in and a small single-storey outshut was added at the back. Picturesque Gothic style.

2 storeys. Asymmetrical 2-bay east front facing walled kitchen garden. Gabled cross-wing on right with first floor oriel on brackets, above which is tympanum in the gable with terracotta arms; the Gothic arcaded loggia below has been replaced by a large 9-light mullion-transom window. On left similar 3-light window and oriel above through eaves with bargeboarded gable and tympanum with terracotta arms with monogram,MP, on shield. Oriel on south end. Round flint and brick tower on north side of cross-wing with buttress and loops; its tiled octagonal spire truncated. Open porch on right of tower with gableted roof on arched wooden posts. At rear (west) jettied gable on left with oriel and single-storey outshut on right with pointed arch doorway. All casement windows, originally with leaded panes.

SOURCE:RIBA Drawings Collection has contemporary illustration of the cottage.

Listing NGR: SU4933549042

Legacy

The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.

Legacy System number:
139428
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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