Tumbledown Cottage
1 AND 2, BECKS CROFT
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1382319
- Date first listed:
- 05-Apr-1967
- List Entry Name:
- Tumbledown Cottage
- Statutory Address:
- 1 AND 2, BECKS CROFT
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1382319
- Date first listed:
- 05-Apr-1967
- List Entry Name:
- Tumbledown Cottage
- Statutory Address 1:
- 1 AND 2, BECKS CROFT
- Statutory Address 2:
- 116 AND 116A, HIGH STREET
- Statutory Address 3:
- TUMBLEDOWN COTTAGE, 118, HIGH STREET
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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:
- 1 AND 2, BECKS CROFT
- Statutory Address:
- 116 AND 116A, HIGH STREET
- Statutory Address:
- TUMBLEDOWN COTTAGE, 118, HIGH STREET
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Warwickshire
- District:
- Stratford-on-Avon (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Henley-in-Arden
- National Grid Reference:
- SP 15064 65951
Details
HENLEY-IN-ARDEN
SP1565 HIGH STREET
652-1/11/56 (West side)
05/04/67 Nos.116, 116A AND 118
Tumbledown Cottage (No.118)
GV II
Includes: Nos.1 AND 2 BECKS CROFT.
Pair of houses, now shops and houses. C17, altered early C19.
Timber-frame refronted with brick laid to Flemish bond; gabled
old tile roofs with brick stacks to rear. L-plan with barn to
rear attached by C20 wing.
EXTERIOR: 2 storeys; 4-window range. Top dentilled brick
cornice; asymmetrical gable to left end. Pair of shop fronts
with wide bracketed canopy over central pair of entrances with
half-glazed doors flanking 2-light window; 2-light shop window
to left and 3-light window to right with canopy; windows and
doors with fretwork lower panels, some now covered.
No.118 to left has entrance with architrave and 4-flush-panel
door to left of canted bay window with late C20 small-paned
glazing and roof continued as canopy over entrance. First
floor has 4 windows with 8/8 sashes in wide moulded frames.
Left return to Becks Croft has C20 entrances, windows and
dormers; large stack to front of ridge.
Right return has exposed timber-framing showing raising of
eaves; C20 wing connects front range with long C17
timber-framed barn with brick infill to square framing; some
brick renewal.
INTERIOR: not inspected.
Listing NGR: SP1506465951
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 482686
- 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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