Gareth the Old Cottage
GARETH, UPPER STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1377798
- Date first listed:
- 21-May-1985
- List Entry Name:
- Gareth the Old Cottage
- Statutory Address:
- GARETH, UPPER STREET
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1377798
- Date first listed:
- 21-May-1985
- List Entry Name:
- Gareth the Old Cottage
- Statutory Address 1:
- GARETH, UPPER STREET
- Statutory Address 2:
- THE OLD COTTAGE, UPPER STREET
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:
- GARETH, UPPER STREET
- Statutory Address:
- THE OLD COTTAGE, UPPER STREET
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Surrey
- District:
- Guildford (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Shere
- National Grid Reference:
- TQ 07041 47966
Details
TQ 0647-0747 SHERE CP UPPER STREET (North Side)
12/274 Gareth and the Old Cottage
GV II
Cottage, extended and divided. C17 left end rebuilt in C20 with brick and timber frame. Red and brown brick galleted with ironstone, brown brick extensions to left, timber framed with brick infill to left hand return front. Plain tiled roof, hipped to right. One storey and attic on plinth with plat band over ground floor and large corbelled stack to ridge right of centre. Five three-light gabled through-eaves dormers with fishscale tile hung gables. Five cambered head casements to ground floor. Half- glazed door to centre right in line with chimney. Left hand return front: jettied to first floor. Included for Group Value only.
Listing NGR: TQ0704947967
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 288541
- 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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