Duck Cottage
DUCK COTTAGE, CHURCH STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1264544
- Date first listed:
- 20-Sept-1988
- List Entry Name:
- Duck Cottage
- Statutory Address:
- DUCK COTTAGE, CHURCH STREET
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1264544
- Date first listed:
- 20-Sept-1988
- List Entry Name:
- Duck Cottage
- Statutory Address 1:
- DUCK COTTAGE, CHURCH 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.
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:
- DUCK COTTAGE, CHURCH STREET
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Somerset (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Drayton
- National Grid Reference:
- ST 40586 24738
Details
ST4024 DRAYTON CP CHURCH STREET (South side)
7/25 Duck Cottage
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GV II
House. C15/C16, C20 alteration. Rendered and whitewashed on a cob and rubble core, possibly with some timber-framing, thatch. Hall house, later floored, outer room rebuilt C20 as a kitchen. Rectangular on plan. Two storeys, 2 bays to east front, 2, 3 and 4-light mullioned and transomed wooden casements with leaded lights, wooden lintels; large C20 two-stage buttress, tile offsets. Door opening to west in a 4-centred arch wood architrave, plank door, porch. Interior with jointed cruck truss; timber-framed partition running from ground to roof, with an original doorway; ceiling beams. (VAG Report, unpublished SRO, November 1983),
Listing NGR: ST4058424735
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 264345
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Vernacular Architecture Group Report in November, (1983)
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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