Old Overtown Cottage
OLD OVERTOWN COTTAGE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1340384
- Date first listed:
- 24-Mar-1987
- List Entry Name:
- Old Overtown Cottage
- Statutory Address:
- OLD OVERTOWN COTTAGE
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- Reference:
- IOE01/01497/35
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1340384
- Date first listed:
- 24-Mar-1987
- List Entry Name:
- Old Overtown Cottage
- Statutory Address 1:
- OLD OVERTOWN 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:
- OLD OVERTOWN COTTAGE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Gloucestershire
- District:
- Stroud (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Cranham
- National Grid Reference:
- SO 89947 12139
Details
SO 81 SE CRANHAM OVERTOWN
1/154 Old Overtown Cottage
GV II
Part formerly stable, now detached house and outbuildng. Late C17, part possibly C18 altered to house in C20. Random rubble limestone; ashlar chimney; corrugated asbestos roof. Two-storey with attic; single-storey wing at south west end forms L-plan. South west end: front of original house, now used as outbuilding and reduced to single-storey. Central doorway with stone lintel and hoodmould. Flanking 3-light recessed chamfered mullioned casements with hoodmoulds. Roof hipped to left corner. Gable to south east end of wing, 2-light chamfered mullioned attic casement being later insertion. Mixed fenestration to main part of building, single and 2-light mullioned casements. Two small upper floor chamfered openings on south east side may have been loft holes. Single-window fenestration to north east gable end, 2-light with hoodmould to ground and upper floor, oval window to attic. Forms part of group with Old Overtown House (q.v.) to south west.
Listing NGR: SO8994712139
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 132713
- 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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