The Cottage
THE COTTAGE, 10, FRONT STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1307456
- Date first listed:
- 09-Oct-1984
- List Entry Name:
- The Cottage
- Statutory Address:
- THE COTTAGE, 10, FRONT STREET
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- Reference:
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1307456
- Date first listed:
- 09-Oct-1984
- List Entry Name:
- The Cottage
- Statutory Address 1:
- THE COTTAGE, 10, FRONT STREET
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:
- THE COTTAGE, 10, FRONT STREET
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Leicestershire
- District:
- Charnwood (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Birstall
- National Grid Reference:
- SK 59684 08928
Details
BIRSTALL SK 50 NE FRONT STREET (West Side)
5/40 No. 10 (The Cottage)
GV II.
Cottage, possible formerly 3 dwellings. Late C16 or early C17 core. Rough cast render over timberframe. Welsh slate roof with cresting. Gable on to street. 2 storeys, and now a 3 unit plan, with 1 bay to right of door. The fenestration is largely C20, with a squared bay window to right and a 5-light slightly projecting window at left hand end of elevation, with a French window and a 3-light casement to the middle bay. 3 upper casement windows and a dormer with glazed gablet. Gable end and 1 axial stack, which projects through the slope of the roof, rather than from the ridge. In the right hand gable wall, part of the roof truss is visible. Inside, much of the timberwork survives. Beamed ceilings to ground floor with chamfered spine beam in central bay, and timbered partition walls. Wall plate and main trusses and partitions visible upstairs.
Listing NGR: SK5968408928
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 189504
- 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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