Bumble Bee Cottage
BUMBLE BEE COTTAGE, 5, MAIN STREET, WAKELEY, LE15 8PA
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1234014
- Date first listed:
- 31-Mar-1988
- List Entry Name:
- Bumble Bee Cottage
- Statutory Address:
- BUMBLE BEE COTTAGE, 5, MAIN STREET, WAKELEY, LE15 8PA
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1234014
- Date first listed:
- 31-Mar-1988
- List Entry Name:
- Bumble Bee Cottage
- Statutory Address 1:
- BUMBLE BEE COTTAGE, 5, MAIN STREET, WAKELEY, LE15 8PA
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:
- BUMBLE BEE COTTAGE, 5, MAIN STREET, WAKELEY, LE15 8PA
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- North Northamptonshire (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Wakerley
- National Grid Reference:
- SP 95590 99447
Details
This list entry was subject to a Minor Amendment on 28/11/2011
SP9599
10/173
WAKERLEY
MAIN STREET (North side)
No.5 (Bumble Bee Cottage)
(Formerly listed as No.5 (Tyke's Cottage))
GV
II
Shown as Nos. 6 and 7 on Ordnance Survey map.
House. Early C18 and C19. Regular coursed limestone with pantile and thatch roof. Originally single-unit plan. Single storey with attic. Two-window range, of C19 casements, under wood lintels. Similar casement, under eyebrow dormer, to attic. Central C19 style plank door is also under wood lintel. Brick and stone stack at end. C19 single-storey outbuilding, to left, has pantile roof and now forms part of house. Interior not inspected.
(RCHM: An inventory of Architectural Monuments in North Northamptonshire: p155)
Listing NGR: SP9559099447
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 409663
- 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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