Squatters Cottage
SQUATTERS COTTAGE, JACKS LANE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1389449
- Date first listed:
- 10-Oct-2001
- List Entry Name:
- Squatters Cottage
- Statutory Address:
- SQUATTERS COTTAGE, JACKS LANE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1389449
- Date first listed:
- 10-Oct-2001
- List Entry Name:
- Squatters Cottage
- Statutory Address 1:
- SQUATTERS COTTAGE, JACKS LANE
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:
- SQUATTERS COTTAGE, JACKS LANE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- County of Herefordshire (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Wellington Heath
- National Grid Reference:
- SO7100440602
Details
1089/0/10002
10-OCT-01
WELLINGTON HEATH
JACKS LANE (OFF)
Squatters Cottage
II
House. Circa C18. Light scantling timber-framing with plastered wattle-and-daub panels mostly replaced with red brick infilling. Thatched roof with gabled ends, covered in corrugated-iron sheets. Large brick stack at left [W] end with detached brick shaft.
PLAN: 2-cell plan. Direct entry at centre of south front into larger room which is heated from a large fireplace on the left gable end; smaller bay on right [E] contains small unheated room and winder stairs rising from principal room.
EXTERIOR 1 storey and attic. South front with plank door to right of centre and 2-light casement to its left with glazing bars. Small attic window in east gable end and large brick stack on west end with detached brick shaft. Rear [N] blind. Box frame with large panels and tension braces at east end.
INTERIOR: Principal room [W] room has chamfered cross-beam, boarded ceiling and large fireplace with timber bressumer. Winder staircase in right [E] bay rising from main room.
NOTE: This cottage is depicted on the Ledbury Enclosure map of 1814.
A rare, largely unaltered, small 2-room plan C18 timber-framed dwelling.
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 488109
- 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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