Spinney Cottage
SPINNEY COTTAGE, STRATFORD ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1389363
- Date first listed:
- 18-Jul-2001
- List Entry Name:
- Spinney Cottage
- Statutory Address:
- SPINNEY COTTAGE, STRATFORD ROAD
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1389363
- Date first listed:
- 18-Jul-2001
- List Entry Name:
- Spinney Cottage
- Statutory Address 1:
- SPINNEY COTTAGE, STRATFORD ROAD
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:
- SPINNEY COTTAGE, STRATFORD ROAD
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Milton Keynes (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Wolverton and Greenleys
- National Grid Reference:
- SP 80180 40967
Details
891/0/10025 STRATFORD ROAD
18-JUL-01 Spinney Cottage
II
Cottage. Early-Mid C18, altered 1887 by Edward Swinfen Harris. Coursed limestone rubble, plain-tile roof with ornamental tile ridges, brick ridge and rear lateral stacks.
PLAN: One room deep, one-storey-plus-attic range. Main entrance to larger of two rooms at ground floor. Rear central winder stair to three communicating rooms at upper level.
ELEVATION: Facade facing road has plank door to right of centre and 3-light casement windows to ground floor left and right, all with wood lintels. Large dormer gable to right of centre with pair of 2-light casement windows set in red brick. Lintel beam forms base of timber-framed dormer gable with brick nogging. Top of gable is tile-hung. Lintel beam is inscribed AD 1887. Dormer gable has simply decorated barge-boards.
INTERIOR: Entrance to main room with chamfered spine beam. Plank doors and plank floors. Winder stair with plank door to attic with three communicating rooms. Thick interior walls.
SUBSIDIARY: Brick coal shed with tile roof in garden.
HISTORY: Formerly Warren Farm Cottage. Probably thatched until re-roofed and otherwise improved by Edward Swinfen Harris for the Radcliffe Trust.
SOURCES: W.S.Y. West, The Trainmakers; the story of Wolverton Works 1838-1981, Buckingham, 1982.
P. Woodfield, The Historic Buildings of Milton Keynes, Milton Keynes, 1986.
Listing NGR: SP8018040967
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 488005
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Woodfield, P, The Historic Buildings of Milton Keynes, (1986)
West, B, The Trainmakers: The Story of Wolverton Works 1838-1981, ()
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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