Bristow Cottage
BRISTOW COTTAGE, RECTORY LANE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1248414
- Date first listed:
- 07-Apr-1983
- List Entry Name:
- Bristow Cottage
- Statutory Address:
- BRISTOW COTTAGE, RECTORY LANE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1248414
- Date first listed:
- 07-Apr-1983
- List Entry Name:
- Bristow Cottage
- Statutory Address 1:
- BRISTOW COTTAGE, RECTORY LANE
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:
- BRISTOW COTTAGE, RECTORY LANE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Surrey
- District:
- Mole Valley (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Charlwood
- National Grid Reference:
- TQ 24002 41289
Details
RECTORY LANE 1. 5387 (north side) Bristow Cottage TQ 2341 4/34 TQ 2441 5/34 II 2. Circa 1630. Formerly called School Cottage and built as a school "for the teaching of 2 poor children therein gratis" by the Rev John Bristow who was Rector of Charlwood from 1615-1637. Timber-framed cottage with painted brick infilling on base of Charlwood stone, 2 bays with ½ bay at end. One storey and attics. Square framing with straight tension braces. Jowls. Horsham slab roof half-hipped at one end. Two casement windows and one modern dormer. The interior contains a clasped purlin and wind brace roof and the text of the Ten Commandments painted on a roundel. Originally there was an end smoke bay and the bedroom was reached up a ladder. (See Domestic Buildings Research Group Report No 41. Joan M Harding "Four Centuries of Charlwood Houses" p 29).
Listing NGR: TQ2399841288
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 430013
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Harding, JM, Four Centuries of Charlwood Houses, (), 29
Domestic Buildings Research Group Report in Report Number 41, ()
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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