Brakes Cottage
BRAKES COTTAGE, STONEY LANE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1251565
- Date first listed:
- 29-Oct-1987
- List Entry Name:
- Brakes Cottage
- Statutory Address:
- BRAKES COTTAGE, STONEY LANE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1251565
- Date first listed:
- 29-Oct-1987
- List Entry Name:
- Brakes Cottage
- Statutory Address 1:
- BRAKES COTTAGE, STONEY 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:
- BRAKES COTTAGE, STONEY LANE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Somerset (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Stocklinch
- National Grid Reference:
- ST 38404 17484
Details
STOCKLINCH CP STONEY LANE (North side) ST3817
6/112 Brakes Cottage
GV II
Detached cottage. Possibly C14/C15 origins, modified C16. Local stone rubble, some colourwashed brick possibly replacing or lining cob, and one rendered portion; thatched roof with plain gables; brick chimney stacks. Single storey with attic, 4 bays. Horizontal-bar casement windows to all but bay 1, of 3, 3 and 1 lights, with a 3-light above bay 2 and a 5-light above bay 3; bay 1 has a small-pane single-light casement; C20 boarded door in new frame right of bay 2, with timber and single bracketted porch. C20 windows in west gable: east gable may be cob below, and above is an exposed frame truss with rendered panels, set well back and exposing parts of a cruck frame. Inside, the remains of another cruck frame adapted later to a jointed cruck type, and post-and- truss bays; wattle and daubed framed partitioning survives with a shouldered head doorframe, chamfered on one side; wide central fireplace with projecting oven and later pattern smoke hood, the fireplace having a very high lintel set on posts. (Austin, and Hall, The Medieval Rouses of Stocklinch, SANHS Proceedings, vol 116, pp 86-100, 1972).
Listing NGR: ST3840417484
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 264015
- 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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