Wrights Cottage
WRIGHTS COTTAGE, 25, BATES LANE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1253454
- Date first listed:
- 06-Dec-1985
- List Entry Name:
- Wrights Cottage
- Statutory Address:
- WRIGHTS COTTAGE, 25, BATES LANE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1253454
- Date first listed:
- 06-Dec-1985
- List Entry Name:
- Wrights Cottage
- Statutory Address 1:
- WRIGHTS COTTAGE, 25, BATES 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:
- WRIGHTS COTTAGE, 25, BATES LANE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Cheshire West and Chester (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Helsby
- National Grid Reference:
- SJ 49696 75881
Details
HELSBY C.P. BATES LANE SJ 47 NE (East Side) 1/112 No. 25 (Wrights Cottage). II Cottage and former barn, probably early C18, much altered. Whitewashed brick and sandstone; corrugated iron roof, formerly thatched, Cottage 2 storeys, 1 window, with gable to lane. Flush quoins. Boarded door in skewback cambered opening. Small-pane casement under similar arch. Small-pane horizontal sliding sash to front bedroom and in gable end to rear bedroom. Large, low, battered sandstone buttress left of door. Cyma kneelers to gable; brick chimney immediately behind gable coping. High stone wing wall to side of road at rear. Barn has 1 metre flush stone plinth at rear, with brown brickwork above; double doors under timber lintel; 2 rows of 3 loophole vents. There are stated to be no internal features of special interest. Cottage under same roof to rear of barn is not included in this item.
Listing NGR: SJ4969675881
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 436663
- 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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