Dents Cottage and Railings to Street
DENTS COTTAGE AND RAILINGS TO STREET, 92, PARK STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1319692
- Date first listed:
- 17-Oct-1985
- List Entry Name:
- Dents Cottage and Railings to Street
- Statutory Address:
- DENTS COTTAGE AND RAILINGS TO STREET, 92, PARK STREET
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1319692
- Date first listed:
- 17-Oct-1985
- List Entry Name:
- Dents Cottage and Railings to Street
- Statutory Address 1:
- DENTS COTTAGE AND RAILINGS TO STREET, 92, PARK 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:
- DENTS COTTAGE AND RAILINGS TO STREET, 92, PARK STREET
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- North Lincolnshire (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Winterton
- National Grid Reference:
- SE 93569 18420
Details
SE 9218-9318 WINTERTON PARK STREET (south side) 9/69 No 92 (Dent's Cottage) and railings to street
GV II
House, including railings to street. C18 or earlier, remodelled 1830-5 by H.F. Lockwood of Hull for Joseph Dent. Rendered limestone rubble and brick with sandstone ashlar dressings. Plain tile roof. Cast-iron railings to street with ashlar piers. Plan: 2-rooms with opposed central lobby entries and kitchen extension to east end. Gothick style. Garden Front to south, facing the Park: 2 storeys, 3 bays; symmetrical, with single storey 2-bay extension to right. Moulded plinth, stepped buttresses at angles and flanking entrance bay. Enclosed porch has chamfered Tudor-arched entrance with hoodmould, moulded dripstone and low stone-coped gabled roof. Part- glazed pointed inner door with Gothick-style traceried panels and shields. Boldly-carved Dent arms above with motto "Patentia et Perseverentia". Recessed full-height window bays to either side with moulded reveals and twin cinquefoiled lancet windows with glazing bars to each floor, separated by foiled roundels bearing carved letters I D. Hoodmoulds over windows with square flower moulding and curled stops linked to string course below coped parapet which rises to a steep gable with carved finial over entrance bay. Buttresses have pinnacles with gabled finials. Coped gables have similar pinnacles rising from corbelled wall-shafts at gable-ends. Central stack with 4 octagonal shafts. Extension to right has 3 casements, 2 in chamfered reveals, door to right and low-pitched roof with tall central octagonal chimney (former ornate chimney-top now stands in garden). Street front details similar to Garden Front: plinth, buttresses, traceried- panelled door in moulded arch and chamfered reveal with hoodmould, twin ground floor lancets in reveals with hoodmoulds, similar first floor window above entrance, stringcourse and parapet. Gothick-style railings flank entrance and extend between chamfered ashlar posts across street front of cottage. Interior not investigated. Joseph Dent, of Ribstone Hall, York, had the cottage embellished and a tomb erected in the garden (q.v.) in memory of his father Jonathan Dent, a Quaker and notable Winterton eccentric. W. Andrew, History of Winterton, 1836, 19-22. N. Pevsner and J Harris, The Buildings of England: Lincolnshire, 1978, 426.
Listing NGR: SE9356918420
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 442604
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Pevsner, N, Harris, J, Antram, N, The Buildings of England: Lincolnshire, (1989), 426
Andrews, W, The History of Winterton, (1836), 19-22
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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