Catherton Cottage
CATHERTON COTTAGE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1383536
- Date first listed:
- 29-Feb-2000
- List Entry Name:
- Catherton Cottage
- Statutory Address:
- CATHERTON COTTAGE
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- Date:
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- Reference:
- IOE01/16713/01
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1383536
- Date first listed:
- 29-Feb-2000
- List Entry Name:
- Catherton Cottage
- Statutory Address 1:
- CATHERTON 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:
- CATHERTON COTTAGE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Shropshire (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Hopton Wafers
- National Grid Reference:
- SO 65326 78386
Details
HOPTON WAFERS
SO67NE Catherton Cottage
582-1/2/125
II*
House, formerly 2 houses. Late C14 or early C15 with later
restorations and rebuilding. Painted stone rubble with some
timber framing with painted brick infill. Plain-tile roofs.
Central stone stack with axial brick ridge shaft, brick gable
end stack to south. 4-bay range with additional half bay and
end extensions.
EXTERIOR: single-storey and attic, and cellar. West side of
painted stone rubble to right-hand half with 2-storey 2-window
range of C20 casements with C20 ground-floor bay window to
left. Left half covered by stone rubble gabled and lean-to
extensions.
East side: C20 3-light casement flanked by 2-light casements.
Gabled dormer to right. Vestigial timber framing to left bay
with posts and swept tension brace with raised truncated
part-framed gable-end above wall plate. Projecting bread oven
in centre of stone-walled section.
North gable end: two 2-light casements at ground level with a
2-light casement and single casement set in vertical boarded
gable-end at attic level. South gable end: partly obscured by
C20 single-storey stone gabled wing.
INTERIOR: single purlin roof. Full cruck truss to south with
lapped ridge saddle and restored tie beam and diagonally-set
ridge. Full central cruck truss with arch-braced collar with
all arrises chamfered with plain cut stops; twin raking struts
over collar and ridge saddle, together with surrounding
sections all cusped to form trefoils flanking quatrefoil. The
truss was originally open over a one and a half bay medieval
open hall. C17 stone stack inserted in half-bay of former
hall, with coursed rubble walls with C19 bread oven to east
and cambered mantelbeam with ovolo moulding. Deep chamfered
inserted floor with rounded chamfered stops.
3 trusses in north bays with cambered tie beams and collars
evident on the inner truss; inserted central truss with collar
and twin raking struts over with twin supporting posts below;
north gable-end truss with tie beam, twin vertical struts,
collar with twin raking struts over.
(Transactions of the Shropshire Archaeological Society: Moran
M: Shrewsbury: 1987-: 45-49).
Listing NGR: SO6532678386
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 483966
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Transactions of the Shropshire Archaeological Society in Transactions of the Shropshire Archaeological Society, (1987), 45-49
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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