Armstrong Cottages
ARMSTRONG COTTAGES, 1-12, TOWN FOOT
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1281765
- Date first listed:
- 25-Aug-1987
- List Entry Name:
- Armstrong Cottages
- Statutory Address:
- ARMSTRONG COTTAGES, 1-12, TOWN FOOT
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- Date:
- 2002-07-07
- Reference:
- IOE01/08015/05
- Rights:
- © Mr David A Cotton. Source: Historic England Archive
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1281765
- Date first listed:
- 25-Aug-1987
- List Entry Name:
- Armstrong Cottages
- Statutory Address 1:
- ARMSTRONG COTTAGES, 1-12, TOWN FOOT
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:
- ARMSTRONG COTTAGES, 1-12, TOWN FOOT
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Northumberland (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Rothbury
- National Grid Reference:
- NU 06064 01828
Details
ROTHBURY TOWN FOOT NU OO SE (North side) 17/304 Armstrong Cottages (Nos. 1-12 consecutive) GV II
Almshouses, dated 1896. Rock-faced stone; red clay tile roofs. Ranges around rectangular garden open to south, with 6 cottages to rear and 3 on each side. Single storey; each house 2 bays, one projecting and gabled with a pent wooden side porch; larger gabled projection at centre of north range. Porches each have central segmental arch, flanked by narrow round arches on turned shafts, enclosing 4-panel doors. 2- and 3-light mullioned windows in chamfered surrounds, holding sashes. Moulded bargeboards and braced pendants; in centre gable of north range is inscribed tablet 'Erected by WILLIAM GEORGE BARON ARMSTRONG of Cragside in Memory of ANNE ARMSTRONG HIS MUCH LOVED MOTHER MDCCCXCVI' Gable ends of side ranges each have plain raised tablet set between 2 windows. Decorated tile ridge cresting; gable finials; stepped-and- corniced ridge stacks with half-round pilaster on each face.
Listing NGR: NU0606401828
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 236650
- 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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