Church Cottage
CHURCH COTTAGE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1275467
- Date first listed:
- 10-Oct-1994
- List Entry Name:
- Church Cottage
- Statutory Address:
- CHURCH COTTAGE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1275467
- Date first listed:
- 10-Oct-1994
- List Entry Name:
- Church Cottage
- Statutory Address 1:
- CHURCH COTTAGE
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:
- CHURCH COTTAGE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- County of Herefordshire (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Upper Sapey
- National Grid Reference:
- SO 68311 63654
Details
UPPER SAPEY - SO 66 SE 815-/5/10006 Church Cottage - II House, formerly a school. Circa early C18. Red brick, English garden wall bond, rendered at front; front centrepiece Flemish bond brick. Rendered brick and timber-framed rear wing. Plain tile roof with gabled ends and brick dentil eaves courses. Brick gable end stacks. PLAN: 2-room plan. Larger left room, hall and smaller parlour to right, both heated from gable end fireplaces. Direct entry into front of hall and dog-leg staircase at rear of parlour, behind which is shallow unheated 2-storey wing. EXTERIOR: 1 storey and attic. Symmetrical 3-bay front with broad rendered corner pilasters and slightly advanced gabled brick bay at centre with C18 6-panel door in heavy bead-moulded frame and shaped canopy brackets supporting later gable with carved vine bargeboards; 2-light attic casement above with triangular head in gable; C20 3-light windows to left and right in segmental arch openings. Rear west, 2 small ground floor windows and timber-framed gable wing on left jettied out on first floor. INTERIOR: Various C18 panelled and plank doors. Left room has large unchamfered cross-beam and unchamfered joists; fireplace partly rebuilt and with plaster cove above. 2 large oak doorframes in central partition. Right hand room has unchamfered axial beam and joists and altered fireplace. Early Cl8 dog-leg staircase with rectangular balusters, square newels and moulded handrail. Closed roof trusses with queen-posts, high collar and king-posts above. NOTE: Said to have been a charity school and possibly endowed by John Addenbrook, rector of Upper Sapey 1683-1727.
Listing NGR: SO6831163654
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 412118
- 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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