Bircher Cottage
BIRCHER COTTAGE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1383237
- Date first listed:
- 15-Mar-1974
- List Entry Name:
- Bircher Cottage
- Statutory Address:
- BIRCHER COTTAGE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1383237
- Date first listed:
- 15-Mar-1974
- List Entry Name:
- Bircher Cottage
- Statutory Address 1:
- BIRCHER 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:
- BIRCHER COTTAGE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Shropshire (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Church Stretton
- National Grid Reference:
- SO 44359 91689
Details
CHURCH STRETTON
SO4491 LITTLE STRETTON
1312-1/14/92 Bircher Cottage
15/03/74
GV II
House. c1500, 1927 front extension, 1983 rear extension.
Painted timber frame and infill panels, painted stone rubble,
painted roughcast and painted render to C20 extensions. Slate
and plain-tiled roofs. Integral stone gable-end stack with
brick shaft. Rectangular plan of 2 framed bays, one of which
is cross wing, with larger C20 extensions on each side.
EXTERIOR: single storey and attic. Set back to left of street
front is single bay of square framing 3 panels high with
ground-floor casement. Later stone stack to left return gable
incorporating probable bread oven. To right is projecting 1927
extension covering right-hand bay.
Rear: to left is framed gabled bay with square framing 3
panels high, tie beam with vertical struts, collar, and twin
raking struts. 3 glazed ground-floor panels, 2-light metal
casement above tie beam. To right is projecting c1983
extension covering right-hand bay. Left return side has square
framing 3 panels high with 2 glazed ground-floor panels.
INTERIOR: full cruck central truss with cruck spurs, ogee stop
chamfered bridging beams.
Listing NGR: SO4435991689
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 483655
- 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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