Swiss Cottage
SWISS COTTAGE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1366573
- Date first listed:
- 25-Apr-1988
- List Entry Name:
- Swiss Cottage
- Statutory Address:
- SWISS COTTAGE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1366573
- Date first listed:
- 25-Apr-1988
- List Entry Name:
- Swiss Cottage
- Statutory Address 1:
- SWISS 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:
- SWISS COTTAGE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Shropshire (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Welshampton and Lyneal
- National Grid Reference:
- SJ4108134940
Details
SJ 4034-4134
18/144
ELLESMERE RURAL C.P.
OTELEY
Swiss Cottage
GV
II
Swiss cottage, now disused. Circa 1826 to 1842 for Charles Kynaston
Mainwaring. Horizontal split-log construction on rock-faced rusticated
plinth to main range, regularly coursed and dressed red sandstone blocks
to gabled range; fishscale slate roof with carved woodwork to wide spreading
verges and eaves; carved pendants and finials. Basic L-plan with porch
projecting to north. Single storey. South side has gable to right with
Tudor arch to passage going through to north side. North side has open
gabled timber porch to left with carved decorative open-work panels to
sides and ornamental half-glazed doors with decorative tracery. 4-light
leaded window to right supported on carved wooden brackets and similar
window to right gable end. Rusticated stone axial stack behind ridge to
right. Interior. Retains traces of original decorative scheme.
Elaborately decorated frieze with fleur-de-lys decoration below. Guilloche
pattern to door. Exposed rafter roof and tile floor. Charles Kynaston
Mainwaring was a keen amateur gardener and he travelled extensively on the
continent. It is believed that he was personally responsible for much
of the design of the garden at Oteley and for the features therein. His
house, Oteley Park, built for him in an Elizabethan style on the site of
an earlier building between 1826 and 1830 and extended in 1842 was demolished
c.1960. B.O.E. p. 226; Peter Reid, Burke's and Savills Guide to Country
Houses, Vol. II (198C),pp.106-7 ; Francis Leach, The Country Seats of
Shropshire (1891), pp. 19-23; Mrs. Frances Stackhouse Acton, Castles
and Old Mansions of Shropshire (1868),p. 58.
Listing NGR: SJ4108134940
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 260844
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Stackhouse Acton, F, The Castles and Old Mansions of Shropshire, (1868), 58
Leach, F, The County Seats of Shropshire, (1891), 19-23
Pevsner, N, The Buildings of England: Shropshire, (1958), 226
Reid, P, Burkes and Savills Guide to Country Houses in Herefordshire Shropshire Warwickshire Worcestershire, Vol. 2, (1980), 106-7
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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