Victoria Cottages
VICTORIA COTTAGES, 28 AND 30, HIGH STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1378213
- Date first listed:
- 07-Sept-1951
- List Entry Name:
- Victoria Cottages
- Statutory Address:
- VICTORIA COTTAGES, 28 AND 30, HIGH STREET
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1378213
- Date first listed:
- 07-Sept-1951
- List Entry Name:
- Victoria Cottages
- Statutory Address 1:
- VICTORIA COTTAGES, 28 AND 30, HIGH 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:
- VICTORIA COTTAGES, 28 AND 30, HIGH STREET
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Surrey
- District:
- Mole Valley (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Non Civil Parish
- National Grid Reference:
- TQ1356254443
Details
GREAT BOOKHAM HIGH STREET TQ 1354 SE (west side) 15/86
7.9.51 Nos.28 and 30 (Victoria Cottages)
GV II
Farmhouse, subsequently 2 cottages, now office. Probably mid C16; altered in C17 (principally by addition of brick south gable wall incorporating chimney). Timber frame with colour-washed brick nogging (some in herringbone pattern), red tile roof. Rectangular single-depth 3-bay plan, probably originally of the smoke-bay type; with a short rear wing added at each end. Two storeys and 3 unequal bays, the first being the widest and the centre the narrowest; with a plinth, 4 wall- posts with braces to the wall-plate, a mid-rail, and some light studs; the ground floor has board doors in the 2nd and 3rd bays, altered 3- and 2-light casements in the 1st bay, 2 single-light casements in the 2nd bay and a small 6-pane sash in the 3rd bay; the 1st floor has a 3-light casement window under the eaves in each bay, those in the first 2 bays with pegged frames, external lugged hinges to the central opening, and diamond lattice glazing, and the 3rd with altered glazing in the outer lights. Chimneys at both gables, that to the left with coupled flues and a very prominent moulded cornice. The rear has exposed timber-framing similar to that at the front. Interior: jowelled wall-posts, large spine-beams in the 1st and 3rd bays, and a cruder spine beam in the centre bay (probably added); a large brick inglenook fireplace at the south end, with bread oven in right-hand side (under staircase in this corner); mortices of former wooden diamond mullions in head and sill of window at 1st floor of 3rd bay; floored attic over 1st and 2nd bays; re-used rafters with smoke-blackening and 2 sets of carpenter's marks. (Reference: Domestic Buildings Research Group Report No 2900).
Listing NGR: TQ1669756438
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 290477
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Domestic Buildings Research Group Report in Report Number 2900, ()
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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