City Cottage

CITY COTTAGE, NEW STREET

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Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1362120
Date first listed:
17-Apr-1967
List Entry Name:
City Cottage
Statutory Address:
CITY COTTAGE, NEW STREET
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Official list entry

Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1362120
Date first listed:
17-Apr-1967
List Entry Name:
City Cottage
Statutory Address 1:
CITY COTTAGE, NEW 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.

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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.

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Corrections and minor amendments

Location

Statutory Address:
CITY COTTAGE, NEW STREET

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

County:
Lancashire
District:
Chorley (District Authority)
Parish:
Mawdesley
National Grid Reference:
SD4992715091

Details

MAWDESLEY NEW STREET
SD 41 NE
8/161 City Cottage
17.4.67
- II

Cottage. C17, altered. High stone plinth, post-and-rail box framed walls
with straight arch-braces to the wallplate, stone slate roof with brick
chimney at right gable. Two bays, 1½ storeys; entrance through modern
addition at left end; two 3-light fixed windows below the rail (one to each
bay) and an inserted dormer to the 2nd bay. Rear is similar but altered to
make a small window below the rail in each panel, has bracing only from the
centre post, and in the centre has a doorway with nicked lintel. Interior:
complete timber-framed construction: lateral partition wall with 2
doorways, one altered and the other blocked under a cambered lintel;
similar longitudinal partition of 1st bay; chamfered beams; at 1st floor 2
timber-framed partitions close together, with original doorways in both;
windbraced roof.


Listing NGR: SD4992715091

Legacy

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

Legacy System number:
184415
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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