Recreation Cottage
RECREATION COTTAGE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1340231
- Date first listed:
- 24-Aug-1990
- List Entry Name:
- Recreation Cottage
- Statutory Address:
- RECREATION COTTAGE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1340231
- Date first listed:
- 24-Aug-1990
- List Entry Name:
- Recreation Cottage
- Statutory Address 1:
- RECREATION COTTAGE
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:
- RECREATION COTTAGE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Gloucestershire
- District:
- Stroud (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Painswick
- National Grid Reference:
- SO 87330 07485
Details
PAINSWICK SLAD SO 80 NE 5/300 Recreation Cottage II Shown on Ordnance Map as Recreation Room. Detached cottage, perhaps formerly 2, and at one time with a recreation room and laundry. C18 and C19. squared and coursed limestone to large flush quoins, left; coursed rubble to flush quoins, right. Stone slate roof, one gable and one ridge stone stacks. Two storeys and attic, irregular 2 + 2 windows; to left a 3-light casement at ground floor under two 2-light at first floor and a gabled 3-light dormer, plank door under large flush stone lintel with slight peak and a 4-armed incised device, to right. Beyond straight joint corresponding with ridge stack, a 4-light stone chamfer- mullion casement with hood over first 3 lights only, and a C20 two-light stone mullioned casement in former door opening; above are two 2-light wood casements, and a 3-light gabled dormer. The back has a 1½ storey extension far left, with plank door to hood under a 2-light recessed-chamfer mullion casement to hood; main part, with concrete slates, has two C20 gabled dormers, limewashed rubble walling, a single light casement with leading at first floor, and at ground floor two 2-light recessed-chamfer mullion casements with stopped hoods, and a central blocked doorway. Right return from road includes Cl9 glazed door up 5 steps to meet internal stair. Interior only partly accessible, with C19 fire- place at left end: building may have originated as a through-passage 3-cell plan, but has undergone extensive modification; the roof is said to have been replaced in part in 1926, and the name derives from a former use as recreation room for the village. Set well down from and at an angle to the B4070 road.
Listing NGR: SO8733007485
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 133491
- 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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