Bench Mark Cottage
BENCH MARK COTTAGE, ROOKERY LANE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1366816
- Date first listed:
- 25-Feb-1987
- List Entry Name:
- Bench Mark Cottage
- Statutory Address:
- BENCH MARK COTTAGE, ROOKERY LANE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1366816
- Date first listed:
- 25-Feb-1987
- List Entry Name:
- Bench Mark Cottage
- Statutory Address 1:
- BENCH MARK COTTAGE, ROOKERY 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:
- BENCH MARK COTTAGE, ROOKERY LANE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Shropshire (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Hodnet
- National Grid Reference:
- SJ 59600 29802
Details
HODNET C.P. ROOKERY LANE (East side) SJ 5829-5929 11/85 Bench-Mark Cottage -
- II
House, latterly divided. Mid-C17 with mid-C20 alterations. Timber framed with painted brick nogging. Northern gable end rebuilt in rendered brick. Slate and C20 machine tile roof. Framing: small square and rectangular panels, 3 from sole plate to former wall plate. Eaves raised by one-panel's height in the mid-C20. Baffle-entry plan of 2 framed bays. 2 storeys. Central brick ridge stack. 4-window front; C20 one-, 2- and 3-light wooden casements. One ground-floor C19 cast-iron lozenge-pattern window. Boarded door between first and second windows from left with C19 gabled timber framed porch. Right- hand gable end: jettied first floor with hewn brackets. Collar and tie-beam truss with queen struts. Interior: pairs of chamfered beams with ogee stops. Ground-floor chamfered wall plates. Large open fireplace with ogee-stopped chamfered wooden lintel. The house formerly extended one bay further to the north. The owner (May 1986) possesses a photograph of the house when it was 3 cottages, before the third bay was demolished and the eaves were raised.
Listing NGR: SJ5960029802
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 260241
- 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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