Oak Cottage
OAK COTTAGE, 13, TILLEY
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1264411
- Date first listed:
- 28-Oct-1960
- List Entry Name:
- Oak Cottage
- Statutory Address:
- OAK COTTAGE, 13, TILLEY
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- Date:
- 2002-09-11
- Reference:
- IOE01/08308/19
- Rights:
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1264411
- Date first listed:
- 28-Oct-1960
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 16-Aug-1987
- List Entry Name:
- Oak Cottage
- Statutory Address 1:
- OAK COTTAGE, 13, TILLEY
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:
- OAK COTTAGE, 13, TILLEY
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Shropshire (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Wem Rural
- National Grid Reference:
- SJ5076327879
Details
SJ 52 NW
11/167
28.10.60
WEM RURAL C.P.
TILLEY
Oak Cottage [formerly listed as No. 13 (Oak Cottage) and No. 12]
GV
II
Farmhouse, latterly divided into 2 cottages, now one house. Early C17
with later additions and alterations. Timber framed with painted brick
infill; plain tile roof. 2 storeys and attic probably formerly lit
to gable ends; apparently of 3 framed bays. Framing: close studding
to ground floor with long straight tension braces; hewn jetty to first
floor, perhaps originally continuing to gable ends but ground floor
underbuilt in brick, with moulded bressumer supported on carved brackets
to corners and centre; widely spaced vertical posts and middle rail
with diagonal struts forming diamond patterns. Two C20 three-light
leaded casements directly below eaves and one to ground floor to left,
all in position of original windows with carved brackets below cills.
C20 panelled door roughly to centre inserted in position of fourth original
window. Central red brick ridge stack. Interior: not inspected but
likely to be of interest. B.O.E. p.301.
Listing NGR: SJ5076327879
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 427956
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Pevsner, N, The Buildings of England: Shropshire, (1958), 301
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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