Vale Cottage
VALE COTTAGE, MILL LANE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1365972
- Date first listed:
- 29-Apr-1987
- List Entry Name:
- Vale Cottage
- Statutory Address:
- VALE COTTAGE, MILL LANE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1365972
- Date first listed:
- 29-Apr-1987
- List Entry Name:
- Vale Cottage
- Statutory Address 1:
- VALE COTTAGE, 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:
- VALE COTTAGE, MILL LANE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Wiltshire (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Stert
- National Grid Reference:
- SU 02750 59356
Details
STERT MILL LANE SU 05 NW (south side) 9/204 Vale Cottage
GV II
Cottage. C16-early C17 possibly incorporating earlier work. Timber framed with wattle and daub and colourwashed brick noggings, thatched roof. Single storey and attic, 2½ bays extended in C20 to 3 bays. Framing 3 panels high with ogee corner braces, the centre bay of north side raised by further panel and gabled. Oversailing chamfered wall plate. Entrance within centre bay, recessed, and C19 timber casement windows. South front of brick with paned windows in segmental headed openings, and 3 raised dormers. East gable believed to contain cruck not now visible. Extension Tyrolean rendered blockwork with whitewashed gable. Orchard Cottage, Vale Cottage, Vine Cottage (q.v.) and Old Mill Cottage form a widely spaced group of interest, constructed or reconstructed c1640-60 by New College, Oxford, with similarities in construction, and again remodelled in mid C19.
Listing NGR: SU0275059356
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 311624
- 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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