Rose Cottage

ROSE COTTAGE, MAIN STREET, NN17 3AT

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Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1276362
Date first listed:
31-Mar-1988
List Entry Name:
Rose Cottage
Statutory Address:
ROSE COTTAGE, MAIN STREET, NN17 3AT
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Official list entry

Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1276362
Date first listed:
31-Mar-1988
List Entry Name:
Rose Cottage
Statutory Address 1:
ROSE COTTAGE, MAIN STREET, NN17 3AT

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:
ROSE COTTAGE, MAIN STREET, NN17 3AT

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

District:
North Northamptonshire (Unitary Authority)
Parish:
Laxton
National Grid Reference:
SP 94816 96111

Details

SP 99 NW,
3/162

LAXTON,
MAIN STREET(North side),
Rose Cottage

II

Farmhouse now house. Early C19 altered mid C19. Probably by Humphry Repton and
John Addey Repton for George Freke Evans. Squared coursed limestone with
Collyweston slate roof. Originally simple double-depth plan, now T-shape. Single
storey with attic. Main front is a 2-window range of leaded casements under
shallow stone arches. Central gablet with barge boards has similar casement
window. Central plank door, under shallow stone arch, has stone, gabled, porch.
Pyramid roof with central stone stack. Side elevations to left and right of main
front are similar; each with a 2-window range with one leaded casement and one
blind window. Central gablets with barge boards and leaded casement. Mid C19
rear wing is in similar style, with a lower eaves level and hipped roof to rear.
Interior not inspected.
(RCHM: An Inventory of Architectural Monuments in North Northamptonshire: p115)


Listing NGR: SP9481696111

Legacy

The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.

Legacy System number:
409542
Legacy System:
LBS

Sources

Other
Inventory of Architectural Monuments in North Northamptonshire, (1984)

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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