Praps Cottage the Gardens
PRAPS COTTAGE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1323644
- Date first listed:
- 26-Jan-1956
- List Entry Name:
- Praps Cottage the Gardens
- Statutory Address:
- PRAPS COTTAGE
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- Reference:
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1323644
- Date first listed:
- 26-Jan-1956
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 10-Mar-1987
- List Entry Name:
- Praps Cottage the Gardens
- Statutory Address 1:
- PRAPS COTTAGE
- Statutory Address 2:
- THE GARDENS
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:
- PRAPS COTTAGE
- Statutory Address:
- THE GARDENS
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Dorset (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- West Stafford
- National Grid Reference:
- SY 72537 89602
Details
WEST STAFFORD SY 7289
16/195 Praps Cottage and The Gardens 26.1.56 (formerly listed as Pair of Cottages 20 yards south of Church
GV II
Pair of semi detached, but not identical cottages. Probably C18. Plastered cob walls on rubble stone base. Thatched roofs. Brick stacks, one at left end of Praps Cottage, one near centre, and one at right end of The Gardens. 2 storeys. Praps Cottage has panelled door. Ground floor has 4 casements with glazing bars, one in a blocked doorway. First floor has 3 similar casements. The Gardens has raised plaster quoins at right end. One casement with glazing bars on each floor. Right of the house a plastered cob wall with entrance gate into yard. Entrance to house in end wall. At the rear, a later range of brick, with thatched roof - parallel to the front range. This extended to right in C20 in brick and thatch, at first floor level; the ground floor open, as a covered way, on stone piers. (RCHM Monument 8. Dorset Vol II)
Listing NGR: SY7253189599
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 106384
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Inventory of Dorset, (1970)
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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