Lovely Cottage

LOVELY COTTAGE, BOATLEY

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Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1349351
Date first listed:
15-Oct-1984
List Entry Name:
Lovely Cottage
Statutory Address:
LOVELY COTTAGE, BOATLEY

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1349351
Date first listed:
15-Oct-1984
List Entry Name:
Lovely Cottage
Statutory Address 1:
LOVELY COTTAGE, BOATLEY

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

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:
LOVELY COTTAGE, BOATLEY

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

County:
Worcestershire
District:
Malvern Hills (District Authority)
Parish:
Grimley
National Grid Reference:
SO8044761796

Details

SO 86 SW
2/49

GRIMLEY CP
BOATLEY
Lovely Cottage

GV
II

Cottage. c1600, C19 alterations and C20 additions. Timber-framed, painted
brick infill, painted brick refacing, thatched, external gable end brick
chimneys, the right end stack having bread oven and paired diagonal shafts.
Two framed bays. Single storey and attic with dormers. Square panels, 3
from sill to wall-plate, queen strut truss exposed in left gable end.
Front elevation: 3 ground floor casements with cambered heads, 2 eyebrow
dormers cut into thatch with casements, thatched porch on timber uprights
to left bay with a planked door. Interior has intermediate queen strut truss,
single, trenched purlins; main beams are stop-chamfered. C19 single storey
extensions enclose the stacks at both gable ends; also large C20 rear extension.

Listing NGR: SO8044761796

Legacy

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

Legacy System number:
151714
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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