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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Row of three cottages. Late C18. Read the official list entry to find out more.

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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Date:: 2004-12-30
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Official list entry

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

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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This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

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:: 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.