Numbers 5 and 7 (Spring Cottage)
NUMBERS 5 AND 7 (SPRING COTTAGE), 5 AND 7, KINGS MEADOW LANE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1371871
- Date first listed:
- 17-Jun-1987
- List Entry Name:
- Numbers 5 and 7 (Spring Cottage)
- Statutory Address:
- NUMBERS 5 AND 7 (SPRING COTTAGE), 5 AND 7, KINGS MEADOW LANE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1371871
- Date first listed:
- 17-Jun-1987
- List Entry Name:
- Numbers 5 and 7 (Spring Cottage)
- Statutory Address 1:
- NUMBERS 5 AND 7 (SPRING COTTAGE), 5 AND 7, KINGS MEADOW 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:
- NUMBERS 5 AND 7 (SPRING COTTAGE), 5 AND 7, KINGS MEADOW LANE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- North Northamptonshire (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Higham Ferrers
- National Grid Reference:
- SP 95890 69117
Details
HIGHAM FERRERS KINGS MEADOW LANE SP96NE (West side) 8/51 Nos.5 and 7 (Spring Cottage) GV II
House, now 2 dwellings. Datestone S/RS/1728. Squared coursed limestone and brick, now painted, with C20 plain tile roof. L-shape plan. 2 storeys; part with attic. Main front of 2 wings at right angles with a 2-window range to right of C20 casements under wood lintels and one-window range to left with casement with glazing bars under wood lintel. C20 door and lean-to porch, to No.5, at intersection of wings. C19 door to centre of left hand wing. Front of right wing rebuilt in brick late C18/early C19. Gabled roof dormer with leaded casement. Ashlar gable parapets and brick stacks at ridge and end. Gable to end of left wing has 2 casement windows with glazing bars under wood lintels and datestone in apex. Interior of No.5 has open fireplace with bressumer in room to right and similar fireplace in first floor room above. Winder stair to right of fireplace rises to attic. Chamfered ceiling beams and butt purlin roof structure. Interior of No.7 has spine beams. House built for Stanton family and originally No.7 was attached barn and dairy.
Listing NGR: SP9589069117
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 232351
- 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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