The Retreat
THE RETREAT
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1268322
- Date first listed:
- 14-Aug-1996
- List Entry Name:
- The Retreat
- Statutory Address:
- THE RETREAT
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1268322
- Date first listed:
- 14-Aug-1996
- List Entry Name:
- The Retreat
- Statutory Address 1:
- THE RETREAT
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 RETREAT
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Hampshire
- District:
- Test Valley (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Houghton
- National Grid Reference:
- SU 33918 31680
Details
SU 33 SW HOUGHTON
1073/4/10000 The Retreat
GV II
Pair of attached cottages. Circa 1830s. Rendered cob walls. Welsh slate hipped roof Brick axial stack at centre. PLAN: Rectangular on plan. Pair of attached cottages, each of 2-room plan, the centre rooms heated from back-to-back fireplaces in the central axial stack; the smaller end rooms unheated and with winder stairs at the front. EXTERIOR: 2 storeys. Almost symmetrical2-window south front, the windows at the centre and with doorways to right and left with plank doors and simple rendered porches with open gabled slate roofs; C19 2-light casements with glazing bars, those on the right with mullion off-set to the right; rendered brick cills. 2-light casement on left [west] end wall and outbuilding attached to right [east] end. INTERIOR: C19 joinery intact including plank doors and winder stairs; chamfered cross-beams with run-out stops.
Listing NGR: SU3372133375
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 461933
- 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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