Charnwood Cottage
CHARNWOOD COTTAGE, HIGH STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1361335
- Date first listed:
- 07-Dec-1962
- List Entry Name:
- Charnwood Cottage
- Statutory Address:
- CHARNWOOD COTTAGE, HIGH STREET
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1361335
- Date first listed:
- 07-Dec-1962
- List Entry Name:
- Charnwood Cottage
- Statutory Address 1:
- CHARNWOOD COTTAGE, HIGH STREET
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:
- CHARNWOOD COTTAGE, HIGH STREET
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Leicestershire
- District:
- North West Leicestershire (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Castle Donington
- National Grid Reference:
- SK 44205 26728
Details
CASTLE DONINGTON HIGH STREET SK 4426-4526C (east side) 10/75 No 77 (Charnwood Cottage) 7.12.62 GV II
House. Late C16-C17, much refurbished C20, with flanking C18-C19 extensions. Timber frame with diagonal braces and large square panels of whitewashed render infill. Some timbers renewed C20. Stone plinth, thatched roof, central brick chimney. 2 storeys; 2 bays. C20 paired casements with diamond leading. Central C20 half-glazed door with thatched porch. Slightly taller extension to right is late C18-early C19, of whitewashed roughcast with tiled roof, and has similar casements. Single-storey extension to left, formerly a cowhouse, is also roughcast and whitewashed and is later C19 in origin. Interior has chamfered spine beams and altered fireplace. Roof trusses are all different, the left with inset curved principals, the centre with tension braces to low tie-beam at floor level, the right with queen struts.
Listing NGR: SK4420526728
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 358122
- 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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