Carters Cottage and Shepherds Cottage
CARTERS COTTAGE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1345890
- Date first listed:
- 18-Feb-1988
- List Entry Name:
- Carters Cottage and Shepherds Cottage
- Statutory Address:
- CARTERS COTTAGE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1345890
- Date first listed:
- 18-Feb-1988
- List Entry Name:
- Carters Cottage and Shepherds Cottage
- Statutory Address 1:
- CARTERS COTTAGE
- Statutory Address 2:
- SHEPHERDS 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:
- CARTERS COTTAGE
- Statutory Address:
- SHEPHERDS COTTAGE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Somerset (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Kingstone
- National Grid Reference:
- ST3926213356
Details
KINGSTONE CP ALLOWENSHAY
ST31SE
Carters Cottage and Shepherds
4/18 Cottage
GV II
Pair of cottages, formerly single house. Dated 1711, possibly reusing earlier fragments, modified in C19. Local stone
rubble with Ham stone ashlar dressings; double Roman clay tiled roof with stepped coped south gable to Carters Cottage,
and plain gable to north; brick chimney stacks. Two storeys, 4 bays. Below, 4-light hollow-chamfered mullioned windows
in chamfered recesses with labels, some with internal ferramenta and iron-framed opening lights, above, C19
horizontal-bar casement windows, 3-light except to bay 3 which is 2-light: plain boarded doorways to simple doorways
under timber lintols to left of bays 1 and 4; datestone between upper and lower bay 2 windows; straight joint between
bays 3/4, Plain south gable, casement windows in north gable; leanto extension to rear of Shepherds Cottage. Interior
of Shepherds Cottage not seen: Carters Cottage has signs of former through passage plan of which bay 3, in Shepherds
cottage may have been the parlour and bay 4 may be a later extension: roof raised and rebuilt in C19: features include
4-panel kitchen ceiling with chamfered scroll-stop beams, and hall a 6-panel ceiling; fragments of early C18 fireplace
and also of cambered-arched doorway; plank and muntin partition to hall with blocked cambered arched doorway and
multiple-mould head beam integral with ceiling construction: stone flag floors below.
Listing NGR: ST3926213356
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 264103
- 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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