The Gardener's Cottage

The Gardener's Cottage, Apley Park

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Overview

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1323742
Date first listed:: 17-Apr-1998
List Entry Name:: The Gardener's Cottage
Statutory Address:: The Gardener's Cottage, Apley Park

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1323742
Date first listed:: 17-Apr-1998
List Entry Name:: The Gardener's Cottage
Statutory Address 1:: The Gardener's Cottage, Apley Park

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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This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

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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Location

Statutory Address:: The Gardener's Cottage, Apley Park

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

District:: Shropshire (Unitary Authority)
Parish:: Stockton
National Grid Reference:: SO7152298622

Details

S079NW 823/15/100043

STOCKTON APLEY PARK The Gardener's Cottage

II Orangery/planthouse, converted into cottage. Circa mid to late C18; converted circa mid C19. Red brick with stone dressings. Slate roof behind parapet, originally hipped at rear and with central valley. Brick axial stack.

PLAN: original orangery was a single-cell rectangular building with three bays of large windows at front. In about the mid-late C19 it was converted into a cottage, a floor was inserted and a small wing was built at the back. Classical style.

EXTERIOR: two storeys, originally single storey. Symmetrical front, the three bay centre breaks forwards with a moulded stone pediment and cornice, surmounted by urns. Three full-height windows with gauged-brick flat arches, now interrupted by inserted floor and with two-light sashes with glazing bars inserted, the centre ground floor now a doorway with side- lights. Across the front of the ground floor is a five bay wooden trellis verandah. At rear a C19 gable-ended wing with a sixteen-pane sash in the end wall, and flanking outshuts.

INTERIOR: C19 conversion to cottage with inserted floor and partitions.

Listing NGR: SO7152298622

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Legacy System number:: 469176
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.