Newlands Cottage

NEWLANDS COTTAGE, WRIGGLE RIVER LANE

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Overview

Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1268397
Date first listed:
04-Jul-1996
List Entry Name:
Newlands Cottage
Statutory Address:
NEWLANDS COTTAGE, WRIGGLE RIVER LANE

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1268397
Date first listed:
04-Jul-1996
List Entry Name:
Newlands Cottage
Statutory Address 1:
NEWLANDS COTTAGE, WRIGGLE RIVER 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.

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Corrections and minor amendments

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.

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Corrections and minor amendments

Location

Statutory Address:
NEWLANDS COTTAGE, WRIGGLE RIVER LANE

The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.

District:
Dorset (Unitary Authority)
Parish:
Leigh
National Grid Reference:
ST 61683 05281

Details

LEIGH
ST60NW WRIGGLE RIVER LANE
1790-0/5/10001 Newlands Cottage

II

House. Dated 1825; or possibly an 1825 remodelling of an earlier house. Stone rubble, rendered west gable end. Thatched roof with stone coping and corbels to gable ends. Gable-end stacks, the left ashlar with cornice, the right built of brick. PLAN: 3-room plan, kitchen on the left [west] and parlour on the right and with an unheated room at the centre with a straight staircase at the back rising from the parlour. There are front doorways into the kitchen and the parlour, the parlour doorway has been blocked. EXTERIOR: 2 storeys. Asymmetrical 4-window south front. 2-light casements with horizontal glazing bars, ground floor right converted to French casement and with raking buttress built around it. Doorways to left and right of centre, that on right now a window. Large C20 conservatory on front to left. Left [west] gable end has datestone inscribed 1825. Only two windows at rear, C20 casements and corrugated sheet steel outbuilding. INTERIOR: Mostly C19 joinery including plank doors. Grolll1d floor rooms ceiled, chambers have cross-beams, the left stop chamfered. Roof appears to have butt-purlins and is probably early C19.


Listing NGR: ST6168305281

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Legacy System number:
461862
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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