Coastguard Cottages
COASTGUARD COTTAGES, ALBANY ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1391111
- Date first listed:
- 20-Sept-2004
- List Entry Name:
- Coastguard Cottages
- Statutory Address:
- COASTGUARD COTTAGES, ALBANY ROAD
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1391111
- Date first listed:
- 20-Sept-2004
- List Entry Name:
- Coastguard Cottages
- Statutory Address 1:
- COASTGUARD COTTAGES, ALBANY 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:
- COASTGUARD COTTAGES, ALBANY ROAD
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Isle of Wight (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- East Cowes
- National Grid Reference:
- SZ 50286 96033
Details
EAST COWES
947/0/10026 ALBANY ROAD 20-SEP-04 Coastguard Cottages
GV II Range of coastguards cottages, later cottages. Built in 1882 in Gothic style. Symmetrical range built of yellow brick with red brick lintels and stone dressings, slate roof and 10 ribbed brick chimneystacks with stone coping. Two storeys, with attics to projecting gables only; twenty five windows in all, two or three windows to each cottage. EXTERIOR: The front or north west elevation has four projecting gables with kneelers, lunettes to attic and a round-headed arch to the first floor windows. The other windows are single or paired pointed headed sash windows, except for the ground floor under the gables and the penultimate ground floor square bay windows which have three lights. All are late C19 sashes with horns and without glazing bars, but some windows were replaced in the later C20 in uPVC. Stone band between floors. Arched doorcases with half-glazed doors. The rear or south east elevation is similar except that a number of later C20 flat-roofed one storey brick extensions have been added. HISTORY: These coastguard cottages were built on reclaimed land replacing earlier cottages in the town.
A symmetrical range of purpose-built coastguards cottages of 1882 in Gothic style, substantially as built and part of a group also comprising the former coastguard officer's house, boathouse and washhouse which comprised East Cowes Coastguard Station.
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 491568
- 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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