Vine Cottage

VINE COTTAGE, CHESHAM ROAD

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Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1052361
Date first listed:
19-Dec-1985
List Entry Name:
Vine Cottage
Statutory Address:
VINE COTTAGE, CHESHAM ROAD
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Official list entry

Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1052361
Date first listed:
19-Dec-1985
List Entry Name:
Vine Cottage
Statutory Address 1:
VINE COTTAGE, CHESHAM 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.

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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.

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Corrections and minor amendments

Location

Statutory Address:
VINE COTTAGE, CHESHAM ROAD

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

County:
Hertfordshire
District:
Dacorum (District Authority)
Parish:
Wigginton
National Grid Reference:
SP 93993 10228

Details

WIGGINTON CHESHAM ROAD SP 91 SW (East side) 4/159 Vine Cottage 19.12.85 - II House. Later C17, N part and brick front early C18, S part C19 as village PO. Brick outer walls with timber framed partitions, C18 front of red and blue brick. C19 red brick S part of same height, with plastered S gable. Steep old red tile roofs. A long 2-storeys house, set back from road, facing W. 4 windows long with flush 3-light small-pane casement windows and 2 plank doors with segmental arches and gabled wooden porches. Segmental arches to ground floor windows, timber lintels above. Large axial 2-flues N gable external chimney. Internal later chimney to S part. The interior has exposed timbers and walls of older part have been heightened to 2ft above the tie-beams in the partitions. Shallower N part has axial beam with hollow stops.

Listing NGR: SP9399310228

Legacy

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Legacy System number:
355796
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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