Old Thatched Cottage

OLD THATCHED COTTAGE, SLAB LANE

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Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1362077
Date first listed:
19-Sept-1997
List Entry Name:
Old Thatched Cottage
Statutory Address:
OLD THATCHED COTTAGE, SLAB LANE

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1362077
Date first listed:
19-Sept-1997
List Entry Name:
Old Thatched Cottage
Statutory Address 1:
OLD THATCHED COTTAGE, SLAB 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.

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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

Location

Statutory Address:
OLD THATCHED COTTAGE, SLAB LANE

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

District:
Wiltshire (Unitary Authority)
Parish:
Redlynch
National Grid Reference:
SU1939720270

Details

SU12SE
1824/4/10004

REDLYNCH
SLAB LANE, Woodfalls
(Southwest, off) Old Thatched Cottage

II

Cottage. Probably C17; remodelled and extended in C18/19, and extended in late C19/early C20. Painted brick. Thatched roof with half-hipped ends. Brick axial stack. PLAN: 3-room plan; the centre bay, heated from an axial stack, appears to be earlier. Narrow bay set back on right [NW] end added circa late C19/early C20. EXTERIOR: 1 storey and attic. Asymmetrical 3-window NE front with 3 lunette-shaped attic windows; all casements with glazing bars; doorway to left of centre with late C19/early C20 gabled open wooden porch with arch and plank door. Applied timber-framing on right-hand [NW] gable end. At rear [SW] the back wall to left is plastered and set back. INTERIOR: left room ceiled and with plastered axial beam and corner fireplace with C20 brick chimneypiece. Centre room has large chamfered axial beam and unchamfered joists; fireplace with cambered timber bressumer with straight-cut stop, but cut off at other end and C20 brick fireplace inserted. Ceiled attic chambers. Closed truss over right-hand partition with large principals and wattle infilling below collar; common rafter couples appear to be intact.

Listing NGR: SU1939720270

Legacy

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

Legacy System number:
468853
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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