Japonica Cottage, Myrtle Cottage and Rose Cottage
Japonica Cottage, Myrtle Cottage and Rose Cottage, Pangbourne Road, Newtown, Upper Basildon, RG8 8JG
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1288786
- Date first listed:
- 06-Mar-1974
- List Entry Name:
- Japonica Cottage, Myrtle Cottage and Rose Cottage
- Statutory Address:
- Japonica Cottage, Myrtle Cottage and Rose Cottage, Pangbourne Road, Newtown, Upper Basildon, RG8 8JG
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1288786
- Date first listed:
- 06-Mar-1974
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 26-Jan-2010
- List Entry Name:
- Japonica Cottage, Myrtle Cottage and Rose Cottage
- Statutory Address 1:
- Japonica Cottage, Myrtle Cottage and Rose Cottage, Pangbourne Road, Newtown, Upper Basildon, RG8 8JG
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:
- Japonica Cottage, Myrtle Cottage and Rose Cottage, Pangbourne Road, Newtown, Upper Basildon, RG8 8JG
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- West Berkshire (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Basildon
- National Grid Reference:
- SU 60916 75994
Details
278/2/10021
BASILDON
PANGBOURNE ROAD (North side)
Japonica Cottage, Myrtle Cottage, Rose Cottage
06-MAR-74
GV
II
Also Known As: JAPONICA COTTAGE, PANGBOURNE ROAD
MYRTLE COTTAGE, PANGBOURNE ROAD
ROSE COTTAGE, PANGBOURNE ROAD
Row of three cottages. Late C18.
MATERIALS: Flint with brick dressings and lacing courses. Old tile roof.
EXTERIOR: One-and-a-half storeys. Roof hipped to left with catslide over outshot, end stack to right, and ridge stack off-centre to left. Two gabled semi dormers to right with two-light casements; two gabled eaves dormers to left, that to left with two-light casement and that to right with C20 casement. Two C20 casements to right; three two-light casements to left, two to right with segmental heads, and small C20 casement in lean-to to left. Three doors, two between first and second and third and fourth windows from right glazed with C20 timber gabled porches, that between fifth and sixth windows from right boarded with glazed panel and C20 gabled lattice porch. C20 one storey hipped addition set back to right with casement.
INTERIOR: Not inspected.
REASONS FOR DESIGNATION: Japonica Cottage, Rose Cottage and Myrtle Cottage, Pangbourne Road, are listed at Grade II for the following principal reasons:
* A good survival of a terrace of late C18 cottages in the vernacular idiom;
* Group value with other listed late C18 cottages on Pangbourne Road.
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 398728
- 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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