Staplens Cottage
STAPLENS COTTAGE, POTLEY HILL ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1244776
- Date first listed:
- 18-Apr-1990
- List Entry Name:
- Staplens Cottage
- Statutory Address:
- STAPLENS COTTAGE, POTLEY HILL ROAD
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1244776
- Date first listed:
- 18-Apr-1990
- List Entry Name:
- Staplens Cottage
- Statutory Address 1:
- STAPLENS COTTAGE, POTLEY HILL 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.
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:
- STAPLENS COTTAGE, POTLEY HILL ROAD
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Hampshire
- District:
- Hart (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Yateley
- National Grid Reference:
- SU 82827 60291
Details
The following building shall be added to the list:-
SU 86 SW Yateley Potley Hill Road 3/20 (South side, off) Staplens Cottage
II
House. Probably early mid Cl6, altered Cl7 and late C20. Timber frame with wattle and daub infill, clad in painted brick; plain tile roof; painted brick stack. One and a half storeys, 2 bays, the left bay slightly narrower and both originally open to roof (floor inserted C17); added 1 storey bay on right. Late C20 imitation-leaded upvc windows, mostly 2 light casements. Central late C20 porch with plank door flanked by windows with cambered brick arches; 2 gabled domers above; wall post exposed at right corner; one window to addition. External stack at left end with offsets and metal hatch door. Left return has a small window to left side of stack on each floor, and exposed tie-beam and collar. Rear: C20 door is C20 open cabled porch with 3 light window to right, and 2 light window to left on each floor, that to attic in gabled dormer. Further left is outshut with stack risking beside dormer. Interior: evidence of original partition wall between bays on both floors, with arched head of former doorway on ground floor at front end. Framing survives particularly well on 1st floor having large scantling jowelled wall posts arch-braced to chamfered, cambered, tie beams, wall plates, collared trusses, arched wind braces, through purlins, sooted rafters. The original right hand gable apex has wattle and daub on external side un-limewashed, possibly indicating that there was always a building against this end. The upper floor is a Cl7 insertion, having chamfered spine-beams with lambs tongue stops; on slight chamfer on some joists. Large fireplace with timber bressumer to ground floor, left end.
Listing NGR: SU8226060410
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 450532
- 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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