Merry Ways Norman Cottage
MERRY WAYS, WATER LANE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1375644
- Date first listed:
- 10-Jul-1998
- List Entry Name:
- Merry Ways Norman Cottage
- Statutory Address:
- MERRY WAYS, WATER LANE
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- Date:
- 2005-07-23
- Reference:
- IOE01/13815/30
- Rights:
- © Mr Richard Swynford-Lain. Source: Historic England Archive
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1375644
- Date first listed:
- 10-Jul-1998
- List Entry Name:
- Merry Ways Norman Cottage
- Statutory Address 1:
- MERRY WAYS, WATER LANE
- Statutory Address 2:
- NORMAN COTTAGE, WATER 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:
- MERRY WAYS, WATER LANE
- Statutory Address:
- NORMAN COTTAGE, WATER LANE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- West Berkshire (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Greenham
- National Grid Reference:
- SU4829565394
Details
SU 46 NE GREENHAM WATER LANE
7/10011 Norman Cottage and
Merry Ways
II
Pair of attached estate cottages. 1891, by Richard Norman Shaw, for Lloyd Harry Baxendale of Greenham Lodge. Red brick in English bond and tile-hanging. Clay plain tile gabled roof Large brick axial stacks with corbelled brick tops. PLAN: Symmetrical pair of cottages, of double-depth plan, the principal rooms at the front, service rooms behind, and with the stairs rising through central stacks. Domestic Revival style. EXTERIOR: 2 storeys. Symmetrical 4-window SW front, the first floor jettied and tile-hung, the outer bays projecting and gabled, the gables with fish-scale tile-hanging, the centre first floor windows breaking eaves and with raking roofs, those below with plastered panels above; 5-light iron-frame casements with leaded panes; plank doors with strap hinges. Symmetrical gabled NE rear elevation, the outer of the four gables are larger; the fast floor jettied and tile-hung and the gables hung with fish-scale tiles, 1,2,3 and 4-light casements with leaded panes, symmetrically arranged except for a small 2-light window off centre to right on first floor, and with two stair windows between storeys. INTEPIOR: Plan intact, stairs rising through arches in central stacks. Complete with panelled doors and chimneypieces. SOURCE: Saint, A., Richard Norman Shaw; page 422.
Listing NGR: SU4828365395
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 469618
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Saint, A, Richard Norman Shaw, (1976), 422
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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