Cowlease

COWLEASE

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Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1349112
Date first listed:
04-Dec-1985
List Entry Name:
Cowlease
Statutory Address:
COWLEASE

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1349112
Date first listed:
04-Dec-1985
List Entry Name:
Cowlease
Statutory Address 1:
COWLEASE

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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:
COWLEASE

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

District:
County of Herefordshire (Unitary Authority)
Parish:
Much Marcle
National Grid Reference:
SO 65079 32915

Details

MUCH MARCLE CP - SO 63 SE

8/41 Cowlease

- II

House. Probably late C17 to early C18 with early C19 extension. Timber- frame with plaster and brick infill, brick extension and tiled roofs; brick stack to C19 part is off-ridge, that to end of timber-framed part has sand- stone rubble base and detached brick shaft. Two timber-framed bays aligned north-east/south-west with C19 extension to south-west end. One storey and attic to timber-framed part. North-west elevation has two ground-floor C20 windows, one with two panes in front of end stack and another with one pane immediately to its right, steel 2-light mid-C20 casement in flat-topped dormer to right side of timber-framed part, the ground floor of which is masked by a corrugated iron lean-to with entry in left hand side. Frame is three square panels high from cill to wall-plate; V-struts from collar to principals in exposed left gable.

Listing NGR: SO6507932915

Legacy

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Legacy System number:
152706
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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