Duce's Cottage
DUCE'S COTTAGE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1383654
- Date first listed:
- 15-Mar-1974
- List Entry Name:
- Duce's Cottage
- Statutory Address:
- DUCE'S COTTAGE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1383654
- Date first listed:
- 15-Mar-1974
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 29-Feb-2000
- List Entry Name:
- Duce's Cottage
- Statutory Address 1:
- DUCE'S 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:
- DUCE'S COTTAGE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Shropshire (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Bitterley
- National Grid Reference:
- SO 56161 77387
Details
BITTERLEY
SO57NE Duce's Cottage
482-1/6/69
15/03/74
(Formerly Listed as:
Church Farmhouse)
GV II
House. C17, remodelled mid C19. Brick, with timber-frame with
painted render infill. Plain-tile roof. Stone projecting end
stack, and brick projecting eaves stack, both with restored
diagonally-set brick twin shafts.
EXTERIOR: north front is 2-window range with C19 cross-wing
and lean-to. Single-storey and attic. C19 cross wing gable to
left with oak mullion window with lattice leading over plain
boarded entrance door with tiled gabled canopy. Gable framing
with straight tie and collar and cusped framed star-shape
over. C17 range to right is square-framed with one brace. One
gabled dormer with single-light leaded casement, ground floor
with C19 brick lean-to outshut. Right return gable: end truss
with tie beam, vertical struts framing oak mullion window,
collar, twin raking struts with inset false cusped applied
timbers, square framing with upper tension brace. Gabled
obscured to left by stepped stone stack and by C19 lean-to at
ground floor. Left return side: main range end-truss with cut
tie beam, vertical struts, collar and raking struts. Ground
floor with C20 lean-to. To right the C19 cross wing with
applied cusping at ridge.
Rear: square framing at attic level underbuilt with mid C19
brick. Central tiled gabled canopy over plain boarded door in
chamfered frame, flanked by oak face-fixed mullion and transom
windows with some lattice leading. C20 lean-to to right.
INTERIOR: twin bridging beams per bay with ogee stopped
chamfers. Internal truss with tie beam interrupted with posts
and collar. Single trenched purlin roof.
Listing NGR: SO5616177387
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 484086
- 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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