THATCHED COTTAGE AT ORCHARD HOUSE

THATCHED COTTAGE AT ORCHARD HOUSE, 67 AND 69, HIGH STREET

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Overview

Cottage, now garden feature; date unknown, probably C17 or C18. Stone rubble with brick dressings and some timber framing; thatched roof. Read the official list entry to find out more.

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1393087
Date first listed:: 14-Jan-2009
List Entry Name:: THATCHED COTTAGE AT ORCHARD HOUSE
Statutory Address:: THATCHED COTTAGE AT ORCHARD HOUSE, 67 AND 69, HIGH STREET

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1393087
Date first listed:: 14-Jan-2009
List Entry Name:: THATCHED COTTAGE AT ORCHARD HOUSE
Statutory Address 1:: THATCHED COTTAGE AT ORCHARD HOUSE, 67 AND 69, HIGH 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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Corrections and minor amendments

Location

Statutory Address:: THATCHED COTTAGE AT ORCHARD HOUSE, 67 AND 69, HIGH STREET

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

District:: Milton Keynes (Unitary Authority)
Parish:: Olney
National Grid Reference:: SP 88877 51647

Reasons for Designation

The Thatched Cottage at Orchard House has been designated at Grade II for the following principal reasons: * It is of special architectural and historical interest as an C18 or earlier building which was later incorporated as a picturesque feature into the design of the garden of Orchard House (listed at Grade II and recommended for upgrading to Grade II*), with which it has group value.

Details

OLNEY

1115/0/10002 HIGH STREET 14-JAN-09 67 AND 69 Thatched Cottage at Orchard House

GV II Cottage, now garden feature; date unknown, probably C17 or C18. Stone rubble with brick dressings and some timber framing; thatched roof.

PLAN: Single-storey rectangular building with through passage under continuous thatched roof. A tall chimney is set into the west slope of the roof.

EXTERIOR: The north gable end has red brick dressings to quoins and openings, of which there are three: a small window under the apex of the roof, a large window with diamond leaded panes, and a door which give access to the room north of the passage. There is also a door to the south end in the south wall of the through passage. The through passage is arched and timber framed. The garden path from the back door passes through the passage.

INTERIOR: The north room is unplastered except for the south wall and arched ceiling. It contains a brick fireplace, and there are brick surrounds to the windows.

HISTORY: Orchard House was converted from two C18 houses, Nos. 67 and 69 High Street, in 1904 for Joseph William Mann, the boot and shoe manufacturer, at that time Olney's largest employer; the architect was Alexander Ellis Anderson.

The 1882 Ordnance Survey map shows Nos. 67 and 69 High Street, soon to become Orchard House, behind which are a complex of garden boundaries and a possible orchard; the Thatched Cottage appears to sit against the rear boundary of No.67 High Street, with a small section projecting into the neighbouring garden to the south, No. 65 High Street. Although the date of the cottage is not known, it is shown on the map in its present form. After the conversion of the two houses into one the gardens extended as far as West Street to the rear and were later landscaped by Perkin's Nurseries in Northampton, using the stone thatched cottage as an eye-catching feature. The red brick quoins and window surrounds in the north elevation suggest that it may have been restored or renovated by AE Anderson, echoing his extensions to the rear of Orchard House. The cottage has recently been re-thatched.

REASONS FOR DESIGNATION: The Thatched Cottage at Orchard House is designated at Grade II for the following principal reasons: * It is an C18 or earlier building later incorporated as a picturesque feature into the design of the garden of Orchard House, (Grade II*), with which it has group value.

Legacy

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Legacy System number:: 505763
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.