MERE COTTAGE AND ATTACHED GARDEN WALL MERE HOUSE AND ATTACHED GARDEN WALL

MERE COTTAGE AND ATTACHED GARDEN WALL, 5, MAIN STREET

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1347027
Date first listed:: 07-Feb-1968
List Entry Name:: MERE COTTAGE AND ATTACHED GARDEN WALL MERE HOUSE AND ATTACHED GARDEN WALL
Statutory Address:: MERE COTTAGE AND ATTACHED GARDEN WALL, 5, MAIN STREET

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Date:: 1999-10-11
Reference:: IOE01/00867/14
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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1347027
Date first listed:: 07-Feb-1968
List Entry Name:: MERE COTTAGE AND ATTACHED GARDEN WALL MERE HOUSE AND ATTACHED GARDEN WALL
Statutory Address 1:: MERE COTTAGE AND ATTACHED GARDEN WALL, 5, MAIN STREET
Statutory Address 2:: MERE HOUSE AND ATTACHED GARDEN WALL, 3, MAIN STREET

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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This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

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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Location

Statutory Address:: MERE COTTAGE AND ATTACHED GARDEN WALL, 5, MAIN STREET
Statutory Address:: MERE HOUSE AND ATTACHED GARDEN WALL, 3, MAIN STREET

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

District:: East Riding of Yorkshire (Unitary Authority)
Parish:: Swanland
National Grid Reference:: SE 99602 28012

Details

SWANLAND MAIN STREET SE 92 NE (north side) 6/56 No 3 (Mere House and No 5 (Mere Cottage) and 7.2.68 attached garden walls - II House and cottages and attached garden walls in single composition. c1840- 50 in Jacobethan style. Red brick with stone dressings and slate roofs. House of 2 storeys, 3 bays with short projecting screen walls to cottages of single storey and attics and 2 bays, the whole forming a symmetrical U- shaped plan. House: centre bay taken up by a 2-storey projecting porch with angle buttresses. 4-centred arched doorway under a brattished cornice flanked to right and left by 4-light mullion-and-transom windows with horizontal glazing bars under hoodmoulds with face-stops. First floor: narrow oblong window with horizontal glazing bars under hoodmould to porch: over that is a circular panel containing a monogrammed shield in the gable of the porch. To right and left are cross-windows with horizontal glazing bars. String course and low coped parapet. Raised coped gables, end stacks with bands. Panelled doors under flat gauged brick arches to screen walls. Cottages: 5-light mullioned-and-transomed windows, with horizontal glazing bars, to front facades. Hoodmoulds with face-stops. Shaped kneelers. Brick garden wall between cottages with moulded copings and central octagonal piers.

Listing NGR: SE9960228012

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Legacy System number:: 164812
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.