Tree Cottage
TREE COTTAGE, HIGHER STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1307688
- Date first listed:
- 19-Apr-1961
- List Entry Name:
- Tree Cottage
- Statutory Address:
- TREE COTTAGE, HIGHER STREET
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- Reference:
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1307688
- Date first listed:
- 19-Apr-1961
- List Entry Name:
- Tree Cottage
- Statutory Address 1:
- TREE COTTAGE, HIGHER 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:
- TREE COTTAGE, HIGHER STREET
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Somerset (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- West and Middle Chinnock
- National Grid Reference:
- ST 46787 13450
Details
WEST CHINNOCK CP HIGHER STREET (East side) ST41SE 3/224 Tree Cottage 19.4.61 II
Cottage. Probably, C17, modified. Local stone rubble, with Ham stone dressings; thatched roof between coped gables; brick end and intermediate chimney stacks. One-storey with attic, 4-bays. Hollow chamfer mullioned 3-light window with label to lower bay 4; leaded 3-light casements to bays -1 and -3, with part glazed panelled door under stone hood on corbel brackets between; above to bays -3 and -4 only 3-light casements with single horizontal glazing bars set into thatch. Rear and interior not seen, but VAG Report, unpublished SRO, June 1982, refers to rear extension with further 2-light mullioned window, and inside unstopped chamfered beams, some fielded panel work. Attached on South side to Yeoman's Wake Cottage, (not included in listing).
Listing NGR: ST4678713450
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 263782
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Vernacular Architecture Group Report in June, (1982)
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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