Egge Cottage
EGGE COTTAGE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1355541
- Date first listed:
- 08-Apr-1987
- List Entry Name:
- Egge Cottage
- Statutory Address:
- EGGE COTTAGE
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- Date:
- 2002-08-29
- Reference:
- IOE01/08548/01
- Rights:
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1355541
- Date first listed:
- 08-Apr-1987
- List Entry Name:
- Egge Cottage
- Statutory Address 1:
- EGGE 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.
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:
- EGGE COTTAGE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Warwickshire
- District:
- Stratford-on-Avon (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Radway
- National Grid Reference:
- SP3742347450
Details
In the entry for:-
SP34NE RADWAY EDGEHILL
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Egge Cottage
GV
RADWAY EDGEHILL
SP34NE
3/78
Egge Cottage
GV II
Cottage. 1744, with C20 alterations and large late C20 addition. Designed by
Sanderson Miller. Regular coursed ironstone with irregular quoins. Concrete tile
roof; C19 brick end stacks. 2-unit plan. Picturesque Gothick style. 2 storeys to
road, 3 storeys to rear due to steeply sloping site. Entrance side: one-window
range. Slightly recessed centre. Central entrance has chamfered Gothic arched
doorway; C20 part-glazed door; stone steps. One-light casement to right. First
floor has central plain 2-light stone-mullioned window. Left return side lower
ground floor has wide 4-centre arch with outer arch of large voussoirs and C20
tripartite window with central 4-centre arched glazed door. Ground floor has
window with simple Y-tracery. First floor has lancet. Rear: 2-window range.
Splayed plinth. 2 massive but lower round angle projections with concrete tile
roofs. Lower ground floor has window of 4 lancets in straight head with
relieving arch of large voussoirs. Right turret has small window. Ground floor
has 2 windows with Y-tracery. First floor raised mid/late C20. 2 casements.
Substantial 4-window range addition, possibly incorporating former outbuilding
of limestone. Porch with arched stable door. Interior not inspected. Egge
Cottage was originally thatched, and was formerly known as the Thatched Cottage.
Miller built it for himself to appear as a romantic ruin. It was "Miller's first
essay in the Picturesque" (Pevsner) and formed part of his work on his Radway
Grange property, including the erection of the castle, now The Castle Inn
(q.v.), with which Egge Cottage forms a group.
(Buildings of England: Warwickshire, p.380; R.B. Wood-Jones: Traditional
Domestic Architecture in the Banbury Region: 1963, p.199).
Listing NGR: SP3742347450
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 306189
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Pevsner, N, Wedgwood, A, The Buildings of England: Warwickshire, (1966), 380
Wood-Jones, R B, Traditional Domestic Architecture in the Banbury Region, (1963), 199
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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