Market Cross Cottage and War Memorial
MARKET CROSS COTTAGE AND WAR MEMORIAL, MARKET PLACE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1283550
- Date first listed:
- 20-Dec-1960
- List Entry Name:
- Market Cross Cottage and War Memorial
- Statutory Address:
- MARKET CROSS COTTAGE AND WAR MEMORIAL, MARKET PLACE
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- Reference:
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1283550
- Date first listed:
- 20-Dec-1960
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 09-Dec-1985
- List Entry Name:
- Market Cross Cottage and War Memorial
- Statutory Address 1:
- MARKET CROSS COTTAGE AND WAR MEMORIAL, MARKET PLACE
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:
- MARKET CROSS COTTAGE AND WAR MEMORIAL, MARKET PLACE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Wiltshire (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Castle Combe
- National Grid Reference:
- ST 84184 77171
Details
CASTLE COMBE MARKET PLACE
ST 8477
(west side)
6/120 Market Cross Cottage
(formerly listed as house 15 yds
20.12.60
north of Reading Room Cottage) and
War Memorial
GV II
House, c1800, rubble stone with stone tiled roof and end wall
stacks. 2 storey, 2-window range of flush 2-light unmoulded
mullion windows with sashes. Central door in flush doorcase. Rear
range is earlier cottage, heightened and altered. Attached to
south side is early C19 Gothic screen wall, apparently designed to
close a view, an ogee stone arch with ball finial adjoining Market
Cross Cottage and length of coped wall to a tall moulded pointed
arch with plain impost blocks, infilled with ashlar walling
converted to village War Memorial.
Listing NGR: ST8418477170
This List entry has been amended to add sources for War Memorials Online and the War Memorials Register. These sources were not used in the compilation of this List entry but are added here as a guide for further reading, 16 December 2016.
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 317210
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Websites
War Memorials Register, accessed 16/12/2016 from http://www.iwm.org.uk/memorials/item/memorial/23934
War Memorials Online, accessed 16/12/2016 from https://www.warmemorialsonline.org.uk/memorial/100193
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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