Dove Cottage Manifold Cottage
DOVE COTTAGE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1374574
- Date first listed:
- 15-Mar-1985
- List Entry Name:
- Dove Cottage Manifold Cottage
- Statutory Address:
- DOVE COTTAGE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1374574
- Date first listed:
- 15-Mar-1985
- List Entry Name:
- Dove Cottage Manifold Cottage
- Statutory Address 1:
- DOVE COTTAGE
- Statutory Address 2:
- MANIFOLD 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:
- DOVE COTTAGE
- Statutory Address:
- MANIFOLD COTTAGE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Staffordshire
- District:
- Staffordshire Moorlands (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Ilam
- National Park:
- Peak District
- National Grid Reference:
- SK 13482 50897
Details
SK 15 SW ILAM C.P. ILAM
8/98 Dove Cottage and - Manifold Cottage
G.V. II Pair of cottages. c1855. By George Gilbert Scott. Coursed and squared limestone rubble with ashlar quoins and dressings; shaped and hung clay tiles to attic storey; shaped clay tile roof with plain tile bands; ashlar ridge stacks. Vernacular revival and Swiss chalet style; pair of 2-room cottages forming a T-shape plan. 1 storey and attic; Dove Cottage to right, projecting gable end of Manifold Cottage to left; Dove Cottage: 1:1:1 windows; central 1½ storey porch with rustic and painted barge boards; ground floor has 2-light chamfered mullioned windows with chamfered surrounds containing casements; the 3 gabled dormer windows are single light casements; the central one has a bracketed sill, the two outer ones shaped and painted barge boards; central convex shoulder headed doorway. Gable end to right has a 3- light ground floor bay window with casements. Manifold Cottage: central 3-light ground floor bay window containing casements, with 3-sided roof; shaped barge boards. Return wall has one single light casement to ground floor and a gabled dormer with shaped and painted barge boards. An essential element of the picturesque estate village rebuilt by Scott in the 1850's.
Listing NGR: SK1348850897
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 274456
- 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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