The Old Cottage

THE OLD COTTAGE, SOUTH CHURCH STREET

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Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1316501
Date first listed:
07-Jan-1970
List Entry Name:
The Old Cottage
Statutory Address:
THE OLD COTTAGE, SOUTH CHURCH STREET
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Official list entry

Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1316501
Date first listed:
07-Jan-1970
List Entry Name:
The Old Cottage
Statutory Address 1:
THE OLD COTTAGE, SOUTH CHURCH 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.

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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.

Understanding list entries

Corrections and minor amendments

Location

Statutory Address:
THE OLD COTTAGE, SOUTH CHURCH STREET

The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.

County:
Derbyshire
District:
Derbyshire Dales (District Authority)
Parish:
Bakewell
National Park:
Peak District
National Grid Reference:
SK 21619 68437

Details

BAKEWELL

SK2168 SOUTH CHURCH STREET 831-1/4/171 (North side) 07/01/70 The Old Cottage

GV II

House. C17 core, altered C19. Mixed limestone and sandstone rubble; stone slate roof. EXTERIOR: 2 storeys, 2-window range; wing to rear right. C20 6-panel door (upper 2 panels glazed) in C19 dressed stone surround. Horned 2/2 sashes to each floor on right have projecting stone sills and C19 surrounds. Matching sash window to ground floor on left; beyond this a blocked doorway with wooden lintel; small 3/6 sash above. Steeply-pitched roof with brick end stacks. INTERIOR: left room has C17 chamfered ashlar fireplace with iron grate; transverse oak beam with oak joists. Right room set beyond an ashlar dividing wall: C19 stone fireplace with cast-iron range (range installed 1994). First floor: the upper rooms divided by cruck-like curved principals set on a tie beam which has been cut through to form a doorway. The truss infilled by C17 plank and muntin partitioning. Left room with original purlins showing wind brace mortices near the gable; oak ceiling joists. Right room with oak and elm floorboards, wavy purlins. A plank and muntin screen in rear wing is not original to the house.



Listing NGR: SK2161968437

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Legacy System number:
468209
Legacy System:
LBS

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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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