COOMBE COTTAGE MERCIA COTTAGE NUMBER 3 AND ABBOTS RETREAT

COOMBE COTTAGE MERCIA COTTAGE NUMBER 3 AND ABBOTS RETREAT, MAIN STREET

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1350012
Date first listed:: 30-Jul-1959
List Entry Name:: COOMBE COTTAGE MERCIA COTTAGE NUMBER 3 AND ABBOTS RETREAT
Statutory Address:: COOMBE COTTAGE MERCIA COTTAGE NUMBER 3 AND ABBOTS RETREAT, MAIN STREET

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1350012
Date first listed:: 30-Jul-1959
Date of most recent amendment:: 09-Jan-1987
List Entry Name:: COOMBE COTTAGE MERCIA COTTAGE NUMBER 3 AND ABBOTS RETREAT
Statutory Address 1:: COOMBE COTTAGE MERCIA COTTAGE NUMBER 3 AND ABBOTS RETREAT, MAIN STREET

This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

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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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This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

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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Location

Statutory Address:: COOMBE COTTAGE MERCIA COTTAGE NUMBER 3 AND ABBOTS RETREAT, MAIN STREET

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

County:: Worcestershire
District:: Wychavon (District Authority)
Parish:: Offenham
National Grid Reference:: SP 05358 46348

Details

OFFENHAM CP MAIN STREET (east side) SP 0446 - SP 0546

11/142 Coombe Cottage, Mercia Cottage, No 3 and 30.7.59 Abbots Retreat (formerly listed as a part of Row of 7 cottages on east side)

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Abbots Retreat shown as Sarnia on OS. Cottage row. Early C18 with some mid-C20 alterations. Timber-frame with painted brick and rendered infill on stone plinth, thatched roof. Probably seven framed bays with stacks at junctions. One storey with attic lit by four eyebrow dormers, ground floor 1 + 3 + 2 + 2 casements, mostly 2.-light C20 casements. Entrances have C20 ledged and boarded doors. Abbots Retreat and Mercia Cottage have garage doors inserted. Framing of elm, three square panels high.

Listing NGR: SP0535846348

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Legacy System number:: 148746
Legacy System:: LBS

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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.