Spindle Cottage
SPINDLE COTTAGE, 118
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1366712
- Date first listed:
- 14-May-1986
- List Entry Name:
- Spindle Cottage
- Statutory Address:
- SPINDLE COTTAGE, 118
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- Reference:
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1366712
- Date first listed:
- 14-May-1986
- List Entry Name:
- Spindle Cottage
- Statutory Address 1:
- SPINDLE COTTAGE, 118
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:
- SPINDLE COTTAGE, 118
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Shropshire (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Berrington
- National Grid Reference:
- SJ 51684 07952
Details
BERRINGTON C.P. BETTON ABBOTS SJ 50 NW 3/50 No. 118 (Spindle Cottage) - II - House. Probably C15 with late C19 alterations and addition. Timber framed,of cruck construction,with painted brick nogging and brick additions; plain tile roof. Baffle-entry plan of 2 framed bays, fragment of former hall house. One storey and attic and 2 storeys. Central brick ridge stack; 2 gabled semi-dormers to rear with 2- light casements. Framing: light framing, much altered, probably in the C18 and C19. 2-window front; 2 first-floor C20 three-light casements, ground-floor late C19 wooden cross-casement to left and 3-light wooden casement to right; half-glazed door just off-centre to left. Large full cruck truss exposed in right-hand gable end with low tie-beam and collar. Late C19 addition at rear with integral lateral brick stack. Interior: chamfered beams with plain and ogee stops; chamfered former wall-plate in left-hand ground-floor room; angle brace and sawn-off moulded bressumer in first-floor room at rear is possible evidence of a former bracketed dormer or some other external construction. The eaves have been raised and the roof rebuilt, probably in the C18 or C19. (see former wall-plate above first-floor windows to front). The exposed cruck truss was probably the central truss of a 2-bay open hall and the left-hand bay was probably the lower end; the entrance was probably to the right of the present one (see probable blocked doorway) and the stack is probably a late C16 or C17 insertion. Alcock, p. 143.
Listing NGR: SJ5168407952
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 259704
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Alcock, N W, Council for British Archaeology Research Report in Cruck Construction An Introduction And Catalogue, (1981), 143
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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