Birds Cottage
BIRDS COTTAGE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1296252
- Date first listed:
- 28-Jan-1976
- List Entry Name:
- Birds Cottage
- Statutory Address:
- BIRDS COTTAGE
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- Date:
- 2002-01-06
- Reference:
- IOE01/05350/18
- Rights:
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1296252
- Date first listed:
- 28-Jan-1976
- List Entry Name:
- Birds Cottage
- Statutory Address 1:
- BIRDS COTTAGE
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:
- BIRDS COTTAGE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Worcestershire
- District:
- Wychavon (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Ombersley
- National Grid Reference:
- SO 83610 64373
Details
SO 86 SW OMBERSLEY CP UPHAMPTON
3/158 Birds Cottage
28.1.76 GV II
Row of three cottages, now two cottages. C17, restored mid-C20. Timber- framed, rendered infill, sandstone rubble plinth, brick replacement wall- ing and additions, plain tiled roof, large external brick stack with off- sets at front right and brick ridge stack at left side. Four framed bays; single storey and attic with dormers. Framing: three square panels from sill to wall-plate; short straight braces in upper corners, no trusses exposed externally, end gables replaced with brick. Front elevation: all doors and windows are mid-C20; ground floor has five rectangular casements, four gabled dormers with 2-light casements and two half-glazed doors. Interior: roof has single row of trenched purlins and intermediate collar- and-tie-beam trusses with queen struts. At rear left side cottage is a single storey and attic wing. On the left gable end wall a plaque records that the cottages were restored by the Hereford and Worcester Building Preservation Trust in 1977.
Listing NGR: SO8361064373
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 148053
- 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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