Church Cottages
CHURCH COTTAGES, 1-3
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1307738
- Date first listed:
- 26-Jun-1975
- List Entry Name:
- Church Cottages
- Statutory Address:
- CHURCH COTTAGES, 1-3
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1307738
- Date first listed:
- 26-Jun-1975
- List Entry Name:
- Church Cottages
- Statutory Address 1:
- CHURCH COTTAGES, 1-3
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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:
- CHURCH COTTAGES, 1-3
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Somerset (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Corfe
- National Grid Reference:
- ST 23207 19658
Details
CORFE CP ST2319 CORFE VILLAGE 12/22 Nos 1-3 Church Cottages (consecutive) 26.6.75 GV II Cottage with detached agricultural building, or possibly a longhouse, now 3 cottages. C17 altered early-mid C19.Rendered over rubble, blue lias returns, thatched roofs half hipped to left and on cross wing riqht, swept down as catslide to form verandah in centre, roofridge drops down between 2 central brick stacks, another brick stack rising from eaves on right return. Irregular plan: left agricultural building now 2-cell and cross passage dwelling linked with narrow room between stacks to shallow L-plan of two 2-cell dwellings, shallow projecting wing right. One and a half storeys, irregular fenestration and wall breaks forward centre to right of tallest stack, all wooden C19 Tudor arch headed casements with leading, 3-light rising from eaves left, dormer in roof space centre right, window in cross wing right, ground floor left 3-light windows flanking entrance to No 1, similar casement right of entrance to No 2, another 3-light on ground floor of wing, (No 3 entered from rear), C20 door with thatched porch left, studded plank door centre, irregular 3-bay verandah with wooden porch. Interior not seen, said to contain in No 3 4-panelled compartment ceiling with steeply chamfered beams, spiral stair beside modern grate and unheated coeval room at rear; No 2 with stud and panel screen rear wall projecting with stair turret lit by stone lancet window, shallow peaked door frame to passage running behind stack; No 1 featureless. The irregularity of building was deliberately emphasised in the C19 to achieve a picturesque effect. (V46 Report, unpublished SRfI, February 1974).
Listing NGR: ST2320719658
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 270965
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Vernacular Architecture Group Report in February, (1974)
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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