Holme Cottage
HOLME COTTAGE, RED ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1293401
- Date first listed:
- 03-Jan-1967
- List Entry Name:
- Holme Cottage
- Statutory Address:
- HOLME COTTAGE, RED ROAD
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1293401
- Date first listed:
- 03-Jan-1967
- List Entry Name:
- Holme Cottage
- Statutory Address 1:
- HOLME COTTAGE, RED ROAD
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:
- HOLME COTTAGE, RED ROAD
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Staffordshire
- District:
- Staffordshire Moorlands (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Alton
- National Grid Reference:
- SK0652142731
Details
In the entry for:-
SK 0642-0742
ALTON
RED ROAD
(south-west side)
13/53
Holme Cottage
GV
II
The description shall be amended to read:
SK 0642-0742
ALTON
RED ROAD
(south-west side)
1757-0/13/53
Holme Cottage
GV
II
Shown on OS Map as Holm Cottage.
House. c1700 with later alterations and addition. Massive coursed
and squared sandstone blocks with herringbone tooling; plain tile
roof; brick integral end stack. End baffle-entry plan; aligned
east-west facing south with attached stable to the east on the
same alignment. House to left, former stable to right. House: 2
storeys and gable-lit attic; 2 windows, 3-light chamfer mullioned
windows to first floor, C20 casements to ground floor replacing
earlier mullioned windows; boarded door to left with strap
hinges. Former stable: now garage and house extension. 2 storeys;
roughly 3 bays, tall glazing bar casement to ground floor right,
C20 casement to first floor left, central garage doors. Interior:
chamfered spine beams with stops which indicate position of
former room partition; chamfered bresummer to an inglenook
containing a smaller stone fireplace with corbelled lintel. The
staircase formerly extended up north side of stack. 1st floor:
massive chimney breast of stepped ashlar blocks. Central roof
truss with exposed tie beam showing position of near-central
doorway (infilled); studs below infilled by wattle and daub
(concealed). Holme Cottage stands on a sandstone outcrop in which
steps have been cut which lead up to the front door; 3 carved
heads probably medieval which may have been brought from the site
of the Castle (q.v.) are embedded in the rock.
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SK 0642-0742
ALTON C.P.
RED ROAD (South-west side)
13/53
Holme Cottage
GV
II
Shown on OS Map as Holm Cottage.
House. Late C18 with later alterations and addition. Massive coursed
and squared sandstone blocks with herringbone tooling; plain tile roof;
brick integral end stack. End baffle-entry plan; aligned east-west
facing south with attached stable to the east on the same alignment.
House to left, former stable to right. House: 2 storeys and gable-lit
attic; 2 windows, 3-light chamfer mullioned windows to first floor,
C20 casements to ground floor replacing earlier mullioned windows;
boarded door to left with strap hinges. Former stable: now garage
and house extension. 2 storeys; roughly 3 bays, tall glazing bar
casement to ground floor right, C20 casement to first floor left, central
garage doors. Interior: chamfered spine beam and chamfered bresummer
to an inglenook containing a smaller stone fireplace with corbelled
lintel; the staircase originally extended up the north side of the stack.
Holme Cottage stands on a sandstone outcrop in which steps have been cut
which lead up to the front door; 3 carved heads probably medieval which
may have been brought from the site of the Castle (q.v.) are embedded in
the rock.
Listing NGR: SK0652142731
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 275049
- 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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