Keepers Cottage
KEEPERS COTTAGE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1261220
- Date first listed:
- 23-Nov-1984
- List Entry Name:
- Keepers Cottage
- Statutory Address:
- KEEPERS COTTAGE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1261220
- Date first listed:
- 23-Nov-1984
- List Entry Name:
- Keepers Cottage
- Statutory Address 1:
- KEEPERS COTTAGE
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:
- KEEPERS COTTAGE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- West Sussex
- District:
- Horsham (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Billingshurst
- National Grid Reference:
- TQ 08378 29107
Details
1. 5404 BILLINGSHURST FIVE OAKS
TQ 02 NE 10/20 Keeper's Cottage
II
2. House, former keeper's cottage. Late C16 smoke bay house with rear outshut later built up to form lower two storey rear wing. Main and front wing has timber framed first floor with infill partly of plastered wattle and daub and partly of brick, from which the later tile-hanging has been removed; ground floor of brick and of stone with brick quoins. Steeply pitched plain clay tile roof with gablet to north; brick stack to south gable above late C17 internal brick chimney breast. Two storeys. Square panels of timber framing with straight braces. East elevation with centre doorway with brick dressings and flanking windows also with brick dressings. Three windows on upper floor and traces also of a mullioned window at N E corner. Inside, exposed panel of timber framing; ground floor hearth room with brick inglenook fireplace with salt shelf; exposed beams and stopped and chamfered joists. Smoke blackening to former smoke bay; side purlin and queen strut roof with windbraces; carpenter's marks on rafters.
Listing NGR: TQ0837829107
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 299740
- 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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