Donne Lane Head

DONNE LANE HEAD, DRAY ROAD

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Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1241588
Date first listed:
27-Oct-1987
List Entry Name:
Donne Lane Head
Statutory Address:
DONNE LANE HEAD, DRAY ROAD

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1241588
Date first listed:
27-Oct-1987
List Entry Name:
Donne Lane Head
Statutory Address 1:
DONNE LANE HEAD, DRAY ROAD

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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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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Corrections and minor amendments

Location

Statutory Address:
DONNE LANE HEAD, DRAY ROAD

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

District:
Somerset (Unitary Authority)
Parish:
Odcombe
National Grid Reference:
ST5075115698

Details

ST5015 ODCOMBE CP DRAY ROAD (West side)
10/249 Donne Lane Head
-
- II
Detached cottage. Early C19. Ham stone rubble, coursed, ashlar quoins and some brick dressings; plain clay tile roof
with stone slate base courses between high stepped coped gables suggesting former thatch; brick end chimney stacks. Two
storeys, 3 bays. Horizontal-bar casement windows, 3-light to outer bays and 2-light to upper centre; upper windows have
timber lintols and lower have gauged brick flat arches: to lower bay 2 a 6-flush-panel door with top lights in deep
reveal with ashlar dressings, and flat stone hood on brackets: extensions to both sides; to north gable a single bay
extension with double Roman clay tiled roof, set lower with matching 2-light windows at each level, and boarded door to
left, all under timber lintols; to south gable a lean-to with Welsh slate roof, triangular on plan with rounded point,
with brick infill to front incorporating a further window and a boarded door: the purpose of this last additon not
known. Interior not seen. Good example of a middle class cottage of C19, probably little altered except for roof.


Listing NGR: ST5075115698

Legacy

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

Legacy System number:
440744
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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