Hollis Cottage

HOLLIS COTTAGE, HIGH STREET

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Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1286265
Date first listed:
29-Apr-1987
List Entry Name:
Hollis Cottage
Statutory Address:
HOLLIS COTTAGE, HIGH STREET
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Official list entry

Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1286265
Date first listed:
29-Apr-1987
List Entry Name:
Hollis Cottage
Statutory Address 1:
HOLLIS COTTAGE, HIGH STREET

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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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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:
HOLLIS COTTAGE, HIGH STREET

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

District:
Wiltshire (Unitary Authority)
Parish:
Avebury
National Grid Reference:
SU 09929 69879

Details

AVEBURY HIGH STREET SU 06 NE (north side) 11/97 Hollis Cottage

GV II

Cottage, end of row. 1710 for Samuel Fowler. Colourwashed brick with tiled roof, but left bay colourwashed sarsen. Two storeys, 4 bays. Original work of 3 bays lobby entry plan with a central boarded door within an arched brick and tiled porch. Various C19 timber windows. Left bay has half-glazed door with swept lead-clad hood on brackets. Sarsen bay added to left end with further bay to rear, similar windows. Central brick stack and stack to the gable of added bay. Interior has fire beam to stone fireplace and ogee chamfered stops to spine beam.

Listing NGR: SU0992969879

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Legacy System number:
311518
Legacy System:
LBS

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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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