SWISS COTTAGE

SWISS COTTAGE, 16 AND 18, SNOW'S GREEN ROAD

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Overview

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1240617
Date first listed:: 04-Aug-1975
List Entry Name:: SWISS COTTAGE
Statutory Address:: SWISS COTTAGE, 16 AND 18, SNOW'S GREEN ROAD

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Date:: 1999-08-14
Reference:: IOE01/00578/03
Rights:: © Mr Bob Cottrell. Source: Historic England Archive

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1240617
Date first listed:: 04-Aug-1975
Date of most recent amendment:: 21-Jan-1987
List Entry Name:: SWISS COTTAGE
Statutory Address 1:: SWISS COTTAGE, 16 AND 18, SNOW'S GREEN ROAD

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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This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

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:: SWISS COTTAGE, 16 AND 18, SNOW'S GREEN ROAD

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

District:: County Durham (Unitary Authority)
Parish:: Non Civil Parish
National Grid Reference:: NZ 09242 52891

Details

NZ 05 SE CONSETT SNOW'S GREEN ROAD (East side) Shotley Bridge 5/85 (inset) Nos. 16 and 18 4/8/75 (Swiss Cottage) (Formerly listed as Nos 16 and 18) GV II House, late subdivided and now 2 houses and flat with former shop. Circa 1840. Sandstone rubble; Lakeland slate roof with ashlar and yellow brick chimneys. Chalet style. H-plan, the front and rear blocks as 2 chalets linked by narrow bay. 2 storeys, 3 windows to street. Shop at right has narrow pilasters and bracketed cornice framing glazed door and overlight, and shop window with 2 rows of 4 large panes; 48-pane sashes at left and on first floor in outer bays, and small concave-sided diamond-shaped windows, with small panes, in centre of each floor. First floor jettied on shaped wood brackets with wood floor-level band. Roof has deeply-projecting eaves on shaped and pierced wood brackets with curved pendants. Returns have similar windows, some renewed, and round-headed windows in linking set-back section, on right return; decorative barge-boards on gables. Rear upper-floor addition on higher ground level not of special interest.

Listing NGR: NZ0924252891

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Legacy System number:: 439093
Legacy System:: LBS

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This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.