Hill Cottage

HILL COTTAGE, COTTONS LANE

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Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1349962
Date first listed:
30-Jul-1959
List Entry Name:
Hill Cottage
Statutory Address:
HILL COTTAGE, COTTONS LANE
East gable with close-set framing.
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Date:
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Official list entry

Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1349962
Date first listed:
30-Jul-1959
Date of most recent amendment:
02-Dec-1986
List Entry Name:
Hill Cottage
Statutory Address 1:
HILL COTTAGE, COTTONS LANE

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.

Understanding list entries

Corrections and minor amendments

Location

Statutory Address:
HILL COTTAGE, COTTONS LANE

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

County:
Worcestershire
District:
Wychavon (District Authority)
Parish:
Ashton under Hill
National Grid Reference:
SO 99571 38315

Details

ASHTON UNDER HILL CP COTTONS LANE (north side) SO 9838 - 9938 7/14 Hill Cottage (formerly listed as Hill View) 30-7-59 GV II

House. C16 with c1800 and mid-C20 alterations and additions. Part timber- framed with rendered infill, part coursed limestone rubble on chamfered lime- stone ashlar base; machine-tiled roof, half-hipped at west end. Two-and-a-half bays aligned east/west with external chimneys to rear of central and east bay with tall brick stacks. Single storey, attic with dormers and cellar; the west bay has a string course at attic level. Framing: exposed at east end with two rows of close-set studding, long straight braces in lower corners and a collar and tie-beam truss with close-set struts. South front elevation: ground floor has two 2-light casements with plank weatherings and, to the left, there is a C20 stone mullioned window of two lights; central gabled dormer with 2-light casement. The central entrance has a C20 gabled porch on timber posts and a glazed C20 door. To the left of the entrance is a fire insurance mark. Attic lights in gable ends. A lean-to C19 and C20 addition with catslide roof encloses the rear chimneys. Interior: original roof structure survives. There are two large fireplaces and in the east bay is a winder stair- case which divides into two to provide access to the central bay. The building was once used as a butcher's shop.

Listing NGR: SO9957138315

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Legacy System number:
148466
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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