Barn and Purlieu Cottage

BARN AND PURLIEU COTTAGE

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Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1340895
Date first listed:
04-Jun-1952
List Entry Name:
Barn and Purlieu Cottage
Statutory Address:
BARN AND PURLIEU COTTAGE
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Official list entry

Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1340895
Date first listed:
04-Jun-1952
Date of most recent amendment:
12-Feb-1988
List Entry Name:
Barn and Purlieu Cottage
Statutory Address 1:
BARN AND PURLIEU COTTAGE

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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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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.

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Corrections and minor amendments

Location

Statutory Address:
BARN AND PURLIEU COTTAGE

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

County:
Gloucestershire
District:
Cotswold (District Authority)
Parish:
Bagendon
National Grid Reference:
SP 01180 06640

Details

BAGENDON BAGENDON VILLAGE SP 00 NW 6/5 Barn and Purlieu Cottage (formerly listed as barn immediately 4.6.52 East of St. Margarets Church)

GV II

Barn, partly converted into cottage. C18, south end partly converted and extended to form a cottage C19. Rubble with a stone slate roof. Long rectangular plan with three projecting gabled porches on the west; cottage incorporated into the south end and extended back to the east. West front (facing the church q.v.) from left to right: garage door; gabled porch (largely rebuilt) formerly opening onto a threshing floor with a double-width entrance (now blocked) with a single-width doorway and a 2-light window with segmental head inserted in the blocking; gabled porch with two stable doors and plank infill at the front, under a single timber lintel, early 3-light window with leaded panes to the first floor granary, exposed roof truss and clock to the gable above, stone steps up the right-hand return to plank door; double width entrance to threshing floor with a single segmental-headed door inserted in the blocking; projecting porch with slate-hung gable and double-width entrance (now blocked) with a stable door; 3- light fixed casement above. cottage, incorporated into the south end of the barn with segmental- headed windows and doorway. Cast iron overshot water wheel at rear (by. T.H, and J.D. Daniels, Stroud). Roof; central slate-hung roof lantern with pyramidal roof and weathervane halfway along the ridge of the barn roof implies the use of the roof space for pigeons or doves. Interior; collar and tie-beam roof trusses, some with timber replaced C20. The building is reputed to have at one time functioned as a water powered cider mill.

Listing NGR: SP0117506643

Legacy

The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.

Legacy System number:
131029
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.

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