5 Main Street and 1 and Corner Cottage Drinkwater Lane

1 and Corner Cottage Drinkwater Lane, Bretforton, Evesham, WR11 7JQ

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Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1349992
Date first listed:
09-Jan-1987
List Entry Name:
5 Main Street and 1 and Corner Cottage Drinkwater Lane
Statutory Address:
1 and Corner Cottage Drinkwater Lane, Bretforton, Evesham, WR11 7JQ
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Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1349992
Date first listed:
09-Jan-1987
List Entry Name:
5 Main Street and 1 and Corner Cottage Drinkwater Lane
Statutory Address 1:
1 and Corner Cottage Drinkwater Lane, Bretforton, Evesham, WR11 7JQ
Statutory Address 2:
5 Main Street, Bretforton, Evesham, WR11 7JH

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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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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:
1 and Corner Cottage Drinkwater Lane, Bretforton, Evesham, WR11 7JQ
Statutory Address:
5 Main Street, Bretforton, Evesham, WR11 7JH

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

County:
Worcestershire
District:
Wychavon (District Authority)
Parish:
Bretforton
National Grid Reference:
SP0887644073

Details

This list entry was subject to a Minor Amendment on 17 January 2023 to amend the name and address, and reformat the text to current standards

SP 0844 - SP 0944
13/39

BRETFORTON CP
MAIN STREET
No 5

Including No 1 and Corner Cottage DRINKWATER LANE

(Formerly listed as MAIN STREET (south side) Nos 5 & 7 Includes No 1 Drinkwater Lane.)

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II

Three houses. C17, with C18 extension and some late C19 alterations. Coursed rubble with ashlar dressings and machine tile roof. L-plan, No 1 Drinkwater Lane projecting to south, Nos 5 Main Street and Corner Cottage to west. Stacks to gable ends of each house. North front: two storeys with attic lit by two gabled dormers to right, and a two-light casement in gable to left. First floor has two + two windows, three-light casements except that to left which is a four-light stone muillionedwindow. Ground floor has a three-light stone mullioned window with square label to left. The two entrances have half-glazed doors.

Listing NGR: SP0887644073

Legacy

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

Legacy System number:
148642
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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