Spye Cottage and Rook Cottage

SPYE COTTAGE AND ROOK COTTAGE, MAIN STREET

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Overview

Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1262354
Date first listed:
25-Mar-1987
List Entry Name:
Spye Cottage and Rook Cottage
Statutory Address:
SPYE COTTAGE AND ROOK COTTAGE, MAIN STREET

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Date:
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Official list entry

Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1262354
Date first listed:
25-Mar-1987
List Entry Name:
Spye Cottage and Rook Cottage
Statutory Address 1:
SPYE COTTAGE AND ROOK COTTAGE, MAIN STREET

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.

Understanding list entries

Corrections and minor amendments

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.

Understanding list entries

Corrections and minor amendments

Location

Statutory Address:
SPYE COTTAGE AND ROOK COTTAGE, MAIN STREET

The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.

County:
Lincolnshire
District:
East Lindsey (District Authority)
Parish:
West Ashby
National Grid Reference:
TF 26601 72414

Details

In the entry for WEST ASHBY MAIN STREET 2/143 (east side) Speye Cottage

the address shall be amended to read MAIN STREET (east side) Spye Cottage and Rook Cottage

the first sentence of the description should be amended to read:

Two Cottages.

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TF 27 SE WEST ASHBY MAIN STREET (east side)

2/143 Speye Cottage G.V. II

Cottage. Late C18, C20. Colourwashed render and colourwashed brick encasing mud and stud. Thatched roof covered in pantiles with overhanging, boarded eaves. Single projecting gable stack and single ridge stack. Single storey and attic, 4 bay front with doorway to the right with wooden lintel and partially glazed door. 3 light sliding sashes flank doorway, both with wooden lintels. C20 window beyond to left, with wooden lintel. Single gabled dormer above with bargeboards, finial and 2 light sliding sash.

Listing NGR: TF2660172414

Legacy

The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.

Legacy System number:
435220
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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© Crown copyright [and database rights] 2026. OS AC0000815036. All rights reserved. Ordnance Survey Licence number 100024900.© British Crown and SeaZone Solutions Limited 2026. All rights reserved. Licence number 102006.006.

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