Mill Bank Cottage

MILL BANK COTTAGE

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Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1349980
Date first listed:
02-Dec-1985
List Entry Name:
Mill Bank Cottage
Statutory Address:
MILL BANK COTTAGE
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Official list entry

Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1349980
Date first listed:
02-Dec-1985
Date of most recent amendment:
02-Dec-1986
List Entry Name:
Mill Bank Cottage
Statutory Address 1:
MILL BANK COTTAGE

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:
MILL BANK COTTAGE

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 96059 37856

Details

OVERBURY CP - SO 9637 - 9737 10/112 Mill Bank Cottage GV II

House. 1914 by Ernest Newton for Richard Biddulph Martin. Coursed limestone rubble with ashlar dressings and stone tiled roof laid in diminishing courses with overhanging bracketted eaves and two ashlar stacks situated adjacent to roof ridge. Single storey and attic. Three bays, the north and central bay having a shallow gabled projection to their main west elevation. Windows are all leaded casements. Main west elevation: gabled part to northern and central bay has a 3-light ground floor window with a cambered head and flanked by single- light windows; there is a similar 3-light attic window. Main entrance in angle with main part has a moulded stone canopy on stone brackets and a ledged and battened door. Southernmost bay has a ground floor single-light window and a gabled half-dormer with weatherboarding in the gable and a 2-light window. At the south end is a canted bay window with a hipped stone-tiled roof and a 3-light attic window with a cambered head. To the upper left side of the bay window is written "Mill Bank/ 1914". There is another entrance with a gabled porch on the north side elevation. The house is also known as Cogbill's Cottage. It is situated on the opposite side of the road to No 52, 53 and 54 (Dormay Cottages) (qv). (Newton, W G: The Life and Work of Ernest Newton, London, 1925).

Listing NGR: SO9605937856

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Legacy System number:
148565
Legacy System:
LBS

Sources

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Newton, W, The Work of Ernest Newton RA, (1925)

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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.

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