Holly Cottages
HOLLY COTTAGES
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1266410
- Date first listed:
- 16-Dec-1993
- List Entry Name:
- Holly Cottages
- Statutory Address:
- HOLLY COTTAGES
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1266410
- Date first listed:
- 16-Dec-1993
- List Entry Name:
- Holly Cottages
- Statutory Address 1:
- HOLLY COTTAGES
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:
- HOLLY COTTAGES
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- County of Herefordshire (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Goodrich
- National Grid Reference:
- SO 57422 19510
Details
SO 51 NE GOODRICH -
413-0/6/10001 Holly Cottages
GV II -
House, converted into a pair of cottages. Circa mid-late C17, altered and extended in circa late C19. Sandstone rubble with a dressed sandstone front wall. Asbestos tile roof with gabled ends. Dressed sandstone stacks at the gable ends stone weathering, the left with brick shaft; brick axial stack to right of centre. PLAN: The original 2-room plan house comprises the kitchen on the left [NW] with a large gable-end fireplace and a smaller room on the right [now centre], possibly originally unheated. In circa late C19 a 2-storey 1-room plan extension on the right end and single-storey outshut on the left end were added. EXTERIOR: 2 storeys. Asymmetrical 3-window SW front. C19 2-light casements with horizontal glazing bars. 2 plank doors near centre. Outshut set back slightly at left end with plank door on front. Various small casements with glazing bars and 2 plank doors at rear. INTERIOR: The 2 centre rooms [the original house] have chamfered cross-beams without stops; the larger left room has a big chamfered stone fireplace with a massive stone lintel and a C19 range and oven; smaller right hand room has fireplace with an unchamfered stone lintel and later cream oven to right. Between the two rooms a timber-framed partition, which serves as the only truss, with a tie-beam, diagonal struts to the collar; studs above the tie-beam intact but those below, between attic chambers, have been replaced; head of doorway cut into soffit of tie-beam; trenched purlins appear to have been re-set; trenched diagonally-set ridgepiece; most of the common rafters intact. Small grates in both chambers. Some C17 plank doors survive.
Listing NGR: SO5709118180
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 421633
- 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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