Dower House Cottage and Attached Outbuildings
DOWER HOUSE COTTAGE AND ATTACHED OUTBUILDINGS, PENN LANE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1334647
- Date first listed:
- 18-Feb-1971
- List Entry Name:
- Dower House Cottage and Attached Outbuildings
- Statutory Address:
- DOWER HOUSE COTTAGE AND ATTACHED OUTBUILDINGS, PENN LANE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1334647
- Date first listed:
- 18-Feb-1971
- List Entry Name:
- Dower House Cottage and Attached Outbuildings
- Statutory Address 1:
- DOWER HOUSE COTTAGE AND ATTACHED OUTBUILDINGS, PENN LANE
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:
- DOWER HOUSE COTTAGE AND ATTACHED OUTBUILDINGS, PENN LANE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Derbyshire
- District:
- South Derbyshire (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Melbourne
- National Grid Reference:
- SK3883025002
Details
SK 38/3925 PARISH OF MELBOURNE PENN LANE
6/146 (East Side)
18.2.71 Dower House Cottage and
Attached Outbuildings
GV II
Cottage with attached outbuildings. C17 with later alterations
and mid C19 additions. Rubble stone with flush quoins and red
brick addition and outbuildings. Steeply pitched red clay tile
roof with brick ridge stack to house, and blue tile roof with
dentilled eaves band to outbuildings. Single storey plus attics
and three bays, two to north of stone rubble and southern one of
red brick. C20 glazed door has leaded 2-light casements to
either side and an iron casement window below plain stone lintel
to south. Above there are three raking dormers with 2-light
horizontal sliding glazing bar sashes, that to north with brick
infil of earlier window below. Attached to south the mid C19
single storey outbuilding has a segment headed doorcase plus
plank door, with single light metal window and three small
adjoining glazing bar sashes below a plain stone lintel to
south.
Listing NGR: SK3883025002
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 83130
- Legacy System:
- LBS
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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