Bell Cottage

BELL COTTAGE, SCHOOL ROAD

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Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1350129
Date first listed:
04-Sept-1986
List Entry Name:
Bell Cottage
Statutory Address:
BELL COTTAGE, SCHOOL ROAD

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1350129
Date first listed:
04-Sept-1986
List Entry Name:
Bell Cottage
Statutory Address 1:
BELL COTTAGE, SCHOOL ROAD

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:
BELL COTTAGE, SCHOOL ROAD

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

County:
Worcestershire
District:
Wychavon (District Authority)
Parish:
Hanbury
National Grid Reference:
SO 95994 64143

Details

HANBURY CP SCHOOL ROAD (south side) SO 96 SE 4/138 Bell Cottage - II

House. c1620, extended late C19. Part timber-framed with rendered infill on tall brick plinth, part brick; plain tiled roofs, half-hipped at east end. L-plan; original part of a single-framed bay aligned east/west with an external chimney at its west gable end; extended in C19 by a two-bay north return with a gable end stack and a single-bay addition at its east gable end. Original part of one storey and attic with a dormer; C19 north return of two storeys with dentilled eaves cornice. Framing: two panels from sill to wall-plate, short straight braces in upper corners, west gable end has a collar and tie-beam truss with one strut visible. West front elevation: ground floor has a 12-pane sash window and a square light, both with cambered heads; first floor has an 8-pane sash window; central entrance has a gabled canopy on shaped brackets with moulded bargeboards and finial, and a ledged and battened door with a cambered head; external chimney of older part is situated to the right. Interior: framing appears intact. The house was once part of the Vernon Estate and was sympathetically altered in the C19.

Listing NGR: SO9599464143

Legacy

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

Legacy System number:
147814
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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