Montacute Cottage
MONTACUTE COTTAGE, 1, THE BOROUGH
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1262467
- Date first listed:
- 19-Apr-1961
- List Entry Name:
- Montacute Cottage
- Statutory Address:
- MONTACUTE COTTAGE, 1, THE BOROUGH
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1262467
- Date first listed:
- 19-Apr-1961
- List Entry Name:
- Montacute Cottage
- Statutory Address 1:
- MONTACUTE COTTAGE, 1, THE BOROUGH
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:
- MONTACUTE COTTAGE, 1, THE BOROUGH
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Somerset (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Montacute
- National Grid Reference:
- ST 49826 16976
Details
ST4916 MONTACUTE CP THE BOROUGH (East side) 8/106 No.1 (Montacute Cottage) 19.4.61 GV II Semi-detached house. Circa 1500 and later. Ham stone cut and squared, ashlar dressings; Welsh slate roof over stone slate base courses between stepped coped gables; stone chimney stacks. Two storeys, 3 bays. To bay 1 are chamfered mullioned windows of 3 lights, the upper plain, the lower in a chamfered recess with a C20 label over, lights square headed; to upper bay 2 a 3-light C16 traceried window with trefoil cusped slightly ogee heads in flat-arched wave-mould recess; to upper bay 3 a plain-chamfered 2-light window in chamfered recess; to lower bays 2 and 3 chamfer-mullioned windows of 3 and 2 lights in flat-arched wave-mould recesses, no labels, the lights being ogee-arched with corresponding spandrils; all windows rectangular leaded with some Iron-framed opening lights: between bays 1 and 2 a moulded 4-centre arched doorway without label, enclosing C20 boarded door. Interior not seen, but said to have been altered; it may once havel featured an open hall. (VCH Vol III, 1974).
Listing NGR: ST4983916944
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 434926
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Page, W, The Victoria History of the County of Somerset, (1974)
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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