Doctor's Cottages
DOCTOR'S COTTAGES
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1383756
- Date first listed:
- 15-Mar-1974
- List Entry Name:
- Doctor's Cottages
- Statutory Address:
- DOCTOR'S COTTAGES
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1383756
- Date first listed:
- 15-Mar-1974
- List Entry Name:
- Doctor's Cottages
- Statutory Address 1:
- DOCTOR'S COTTAGES
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:
- DOCTOR'S COTTAGES
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Shropshire (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Wheathill
- National Grid Reference:
- SO 61986 81871
Details
WHEATHILL
SO68SW Doctor's Cottages
482-1/4/212
15/03/74
II
2 houses, now single house. C17. Timber-framed, with partly
painted brick infill panels and partly render on lath infill
panels, stone rubble rear and side walls. Plain-tile roof.
Projecting stepped stone stack with tiled offsets and detached
stone shaft with upper shafts missing. 2-framed bay range,
with gable additions at front and back, and 2-bay cross wing.
EXTERIOR: single storey and attic. Front 2-bay range with
gable over to right, cross-wing gable to left, large stone
stack to extreme left. Square framing with large lower panels
much underbuilt with brick and stone. Small rectangular upper
panels covered by continuous tiled pentice roof on brackets.
Gable trusses with 4 vertical struts, collar with raking
struts over. 4-light ovolo-moulded mullion window framed into
square framing. 2 simple mullion windows set in brick
underbuilding, 2 plain C19 boarded doors. Casement window
opening inset into main range gable framing, and 3-light
casement to left gable. Windows had lattice-leaded lights now
in various states of destruction. Right return: rebuilt stone
rubble gable end with 2 ground-floor and single attic window
opening. Left return covered by stone stack. Rear: stone
rubble ground floor with doorway and window openings. To left
is gable projecting from main range with twin vertical struts
and collar. To right is cross wing gable of twin vertical
struts with raking struts over collar. Window opening framed
between struts.
INTERIOR: main range with internal truss partition with square
framing, chamfered bridging beams with ogee stops, 4-centred
arched door head at ground floor. Internal trusses of 4
vertical struts below a collar, and one with door posts
interrupting tie beam. Single trenched-purlin roof. Cross wing
with chamfered bridging beam with simple stops. Internal truss
of 4 struts. Double trenched-purlin roof.
Listing NGR: SO6198681871
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 484188
- 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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