The Old Cottage
THE OLD COTTAGE, COLMORE LANE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1263480
- Date first listed:
- 02-Aug-1993
- List Entry Name:
- The Old Cottage
- Statutory Address:
- THE OLD COTTAGE, COLMORE LANE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1263480
- Date first listed:
- 02-Aug-1993
- List Entry Name:
- The Old Cottage
- Statutory Address 1:
- THE OLD COTTAGE, COLMORE 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:
- THE OLD COTTAGE, COLMORE LANE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Oxfordshire
- District:
- South Oxfordshire (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Rotherfield Peppard
- National Grid Reference:
- SU7003281989
Details
SU78SW
6/10005
ROTHERFIELD PEPPARD
COLMORE LANE
The Old Cottage
GV
II
Hall house. C16, probably early-mid; floor inserted C17;
divided into 2 cottages early C19; further alterations mid and
late C20. Timber-framed with wattle and daub infill,
plastered; external brick end stacks, that on right plastered.
Plain tile roof. One storey with attic, 2 bays with rear
outshut and side outshut on left. Centre, gabled, late-C20
porch flanked by 2-light windows with leaded casements;
similar swept-roofed dormers above. Side outshut has similar
window on left of half-glazed board door with deep canopy.
Rear: on right a gabled porch flanked by small windows, that
on left containing a 2-light, 4-pane wooden casement. Right
return: on right of chimney, 2 small windows to ground floor
and one above. INTERIOR: the timber framing survives in the
rear wall on both floors, and to all walls above mid-rail
height: sill plate, mid rail, wall plate, vertical studs,
unjowelled wall posts, slightly curved braces to cambered tie-
beams. Collared queen-post roof trusses with clasped
diagonally-set purlins, curved wind-braces, smoke-blackened
rafters running the full length of the roof, inserted square-
sectioned ridge-piece. Timber-framed partition wall between
bays (inserted in roof, implying later insertion). In left
bay on ground floor, chamfered spine-beam with cyma-moulded
stops. Old floorboards to 1st floor.
Listing NGR: SU7003281989
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 432183
- 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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