BISHOP WILSONS COTTAGE

BISHOP WILSONS COTTAGE, VILLAGE STREET

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1387801
Date first listed:: 27-Dec-1962
List Entry Name:: BISHOP WILSONS COTTAGE
Statutory Address:: BISHOP WILSONS COTTAGE, VILLAGE STREET

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Date:: 2002-10-03
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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1387801
Date first listed:: 27-Dec-1962
List Entry Name:: BISHOP WILSONS COTTAGE
Statutory Address 1:: BISHOP WILSONS COTTAGE, VILLAGE STREET

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.

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This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

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.

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Location

Statutory Address:: BISHOP WILSONS COTTAGE, VILLAGE STREET

The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.

District:: Cheshire West and Chester (Unitary Authority)
Parish:: Non Civil Parish
National Grid Reference:: SJ 31419 74214

Details

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SJ3174 VILLAGE STREET, Burton Village 794-1/11/7 (North side) 27/12/62 Bishop Wilson's Cottage

GV II

Cottage, dairy and cheese room; now house and attached outbuilding. Early C17, with C19 and C20 alterations. Coursed red rubble sandstone with thatched roof and brick stack: outbuilding has slate roof. EXTERIOR: single storey and attic; 4-bay front: to left, single-storey 4-window outbuilding at right angles attached to cottage by means of single-storey open-sided link bay. House has wide boarded door incorporating glazed light to centre, beneath gabled half dormer with 2-light window. Other ground floor windows are 2-light, leaded, horizontal sliding sashes. To left of centre is gabled dormer with similar window. INTERIOR: remains of three cruck trusses. Ceiling beam with large girth ovolo moulds and one end bearing which can only be described as a mast step. Exposed ceiling joists and an old boarded door. HISTORY: birthplace and residence of Robert Wilson, Lord Bishop of Sodor and Man (consecrated 1697) founder of the village school, now known as The Old School (qv).

Listing NGR: SJ3141974214

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Legacy System number:: 475793
Legacy System:: LBS

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This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.