SHIRLEY COTTAGE AND SHIRLEY VILLA

SHIRLEY COTTAGE AND SHIRLEY VILLA, BEECHEN CLIFF ROAD

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Overview

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1394474
Date first listed:: 05-Aug-1975
List Entry Name:: SHIRLEY COTTAGE AND SHIRLEY VILLA
Statutory Address:: SHIRLEY COTTAGE AND SHIRLEY VILLA, BEECHEN CLIFF ROAD

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1394474
Date first listed:: 05-Aug-1975
Date of most recent amendment:: 15-Oct-2010
List Entry Name:: SHIRLEY COTTAGE AND SHIRLEY VILLA
Statutory Address 1:: SHIRLEY COTTAGE AND SHIRLEY VILLA, BEECHEN CLIFF ROAD

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:: SHIRLEY COTTAGE AND SHIRLEY VILLA, BEECHEN CLIFF ROAD

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

District:: Bath and North East Somerset (Unitary Authority)
Parish:: Non Civil Parish
National Grid Reference:: ST 74761 64067

Details

BEECHEN CLIFF ROAD (North side) Shirley Cottage and Shirley Villa 05/08/75

GV II

Symmetrical pair of houses. Early C19. MATERIALS: Coursed lias, ashlar dressings, rubble rear, asbestos-cement slate roofs. PLAN: Compact square block with double roof, deep narrow wing to rear of Shirley Cottage. EXTERIOR: Three storeys, each two windows, glazing bar sashes, paired twelve pane above single sixteen pane to ground floor, all to splayed surrounds; the ground floor window to Shirley Villa is set to a blocked wider opening with flush jambs, and it has a part-glazed door with hood on brackets to its left; there is a wide garage attached, right. Set back left to Shirley Cottage is a two storey porch, with a plain sash above wide pair of glazed doors under a hood on deep brackets. There are a broad mid platband, moulded cornice, blocking course and parapet in ashlar, and a central stack. The rear to Shirley Cottage is rendered with a plain sash at each floor, and a narrow wing with monopitch roof, also with sashes at the outer end, and the west end is double gabled over paired plain sashes to splayed surrounds, and single at each floor to the wing. Shirley Villa has a rubble rear, with dressed quoins, with a plain sash and small extra opening to first and second floors, and a large flat roofed ground floor extension. Party divisions are coped, with a central rear stack, and an ashlar cornice, blocking course and parapet runs the full width of the rear. INTERIORS: Not inspected.

Listing NGR: ST7476164067

Legacy

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Legacy System number:: 509874
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.