Berkeley Cottage
BERKELEY COTTAGE, 46
Listed on the National Heritage List for England. Search over 400,000 listed places
Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1349978
- Date first listed:
- 30-Jul-1959
- List Entry Name:
- Berkeley Cottage
- Statutory Address:
- BERKELEY COTTAGE, 46
Location
Location of this list entry and nearby places that are also listed. Use our map search to find more listed places.
Use of this mapping is subject to terms and conditions .
This map is for quick reference purposes only and may not be to scale.
What is the National Heritage List for England?
The National Heritage List for England is a unique register of our country's most significant historic buildings and sites. The places on the list are protected by law and most are not open to the public.
The list includes:
 |
Buildings |
 |
Scheduled monuments |
 |
Parks and gardens |
 |
Battlefields |
 |
Shipwrecks |
Images of England Project
- Date:
- 1999-10-02
- Reference:
- IOE01/00346/20
- Rights:
- © Geoff Hodgson. Source: Historic England Archive
Local Heritage Hub
Unlock and explore hidden histories, aerial photography, and listed buildings and places for every county, district, city and major town across England.
Discover moreOfficial list entry
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1349978
- Date first listed:
- 30-Jul-1959
- List Entry Name:
- Berkeley Cottage
- Statutory Address 1:
- BERKELEY COTTAGE, 46
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:
- BERKELEY COTTAGE, 46
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Worcestershire
- District:
- Wychavon (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Overbury
- National Grid Reference:
- SO 95739 37333
Details
OVERBURY CP - SO 9437 - 9537 9/103 l3/4B No 46 and Berkeley Cottage 30-7-59 GV II
Pair of houses. Circa 1639, altered c1900 and probably by Ernest Newton for the Martin family. Coursed limestone rubble with ashlar dressings, stone tiled roof laid in diminishing courses, gable-end parapets with gabled finials, weathervane at west end and ashlar ridge stack at west end. Single storey and attic with dormers. Three bays; windows are all chamfered mullioned type with leaded casements. The ground floor has two 3-light windows and a 2-light window with hoodmoulds. There are three gabled dormers which have parapets with gabled finials and 3-light windows with dripmoulds. Entrances in outer bays, left one has a round-headed archway with moulded jambs, the right one has a chamfered 4-centred archway; both have square heads and the hoodmould of the adjacent windows is continued above both archways. The east gable end has a ground floor and attic mullioned window with hoodmould and also a small 2-light mullioned window with a dripmould in the gable apex. Large rear wing of c1900 date, single storey and attic with dormers, leaded casement windows and entrance in west side with flat canopy on shaped brackets and half-glazed door. The gateway (qv) referred to in the VCH is now situated on the south side of the road in the garden wall about 80 yards north of the Vicarage. (VCH, 3 ii, p 469; BoE, p 233).
Listing NGR: SO9574237336
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 148556
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Doubleday, AH, Page, W, The Victoria History of the County of Worcester, (1913), 469
Pevsner, N, The Buildings of England: Worcestershire, (1968), 233
Legal
This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.
Map
This map is for quick reference purposes only and may not be to scale. This copy shows the entry on 22-Jun-2026 at 14:49:57.
Download a full scale map (PDF)End of official list entry
All text content is available under the Open Government Licence v3.0 , except where otherwise stated. Any supplied maps are © Crown Copyright [and database rights] 2026 OS AC0000815036 and may not be reproduced without permission.