Vine Cottage
VINE COTTAGE, HIGHER STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1241267
- Date first listed:
- 19-Apr-1961
- List Entry Name:
- Vine Cottage
- Statutory Address:
- VINE COTTAGE, HIGHER STREET
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- Reference:
- IOE01/11413/31
- Rights:
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1241267
- Date first listed:
- 19-Apr-1961
- List Entry Name:
- Vine Cottage
- Statutory Address 1:
- VINE COTTAGE, HIGHER 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:
- VINE COTTAGE, HIGHER STREET
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Somerset (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Norton sub Hamdon
- National Grid Reference:
- ST 46675 15588
Details
ST4615 NORTON SUB HAMDON CP HIGHER STREET (West side) 9/223 Vine Cottage 19.4.61 GV II Cottage at end of row. C17 origins, modified C19. Ham stone cut and squared double Roman clay tiled roof, replacing thatch, between coped gables; stone end chimney stacks. Two storeys, 2 bays. Hollow-chamfered mullioned windows in chamfered recesses, all 3-light except lower bay 2 which is 4-light, all with separate labels, horizontal-bar glazing and iron-framed opening lights: additional plain window left of bay 1: between bays a C20 boarded door, up 5 steps, in moulded cambered-arched doorway with incised spandrils, with label over shallow lintol; indications of previous door position in the left half of lower bay 2 - the cottage may have been 2 formerly - and also signs that the front wall was raised slightly to accommodate thinner roofing material. South gable may be a rebuild, but it includes two 2-light mullioned windows, one at each level. C20 flat- roofed extension to rear. Interior not seen.
Listing NGR: ST4667515588
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 440003
- 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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