Cross Guns Cottage
CROSS GUNS COTTAGE, 21, MILL LANE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1355373
- Date first listed:
- 11-Dec-1969
- List Entry Name:
- Cross Guns Cottage
- Statutory Address:
- CROSS GUNS COTTAGE, 21, MILL LANE
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- Date:
- 2003-09-11
- Reference:
- IOE01/11345/35
- Rights:
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1355373
- Date first listed:
- 11-Dec-1969
- List Entry Name:
- Cross Guns Cottage
- Statutory Address 1:
- CROSS GUNS COTTAGE, 21, MILL LANE
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:
- CROSS GUNS COTTAGE, 21, MILL LANE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Warwickshire
- District:
- Stratford-on-Avon (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Alcester
- National Grid Reference:
- SP 09316 56859
Details
ALCESTER MILL LANE SPO5NE (North side) Oversley Green 2/114 No.21 (Cross Gunns Cottage) 11/12/69
GV II
Cottage, formerly two. C17. Timber framed with lath and plaster infill. Thatched half-hipped roof; brick ridge stack. 2-unit outshut plan. One storey and attic; one-window range. Gable end to road has jowled posts. Ribbed door on left, in outshut with roof down to height of one metre. C20 metal casements with leaded lights. Sides and rear have exposed framing, with jowled posts. Right return side has C20 rendered porch with catslide roof and door facing road. Left and right sides have raked roof dormer. Interior not inspected. (E. Mercer, English Vernacular Houses, 1975, p.212).
Listing NGR: SP0931656859
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 305274
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Mercer, Eric, English Vernacular Houses, (1975), 212
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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