1 and 2, Lower Dunsley Cottage

1 and 2, Lower Dunsley Cottage, London Road, Tring, HP23 5ND

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Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1068653
Date first listed:
29-May-1986
List Entry Name:
1 and 2, Lower Dunsley Cottage
Statutory Address:
1 and 2, Lower Dunsley Cottage, London Road, Tring, HP23 5ND
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Official list entry

Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1068653
Date first listed:
29-May-1986
List Entry Name:
1 and 2, Lower Dunsley Cottage
Statutory Address 1:
1 and 2, Lower Dunsley Cottage, London Road, Tring, HP23 5ND

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

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:
1 and 2, Lower Dunsley Cottage, London Road, Tring, HP23 5ND

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

County:
Hertfordshire
District:
Dacorum (District Authority)
Parish:
Tring
National Grid Reference:
SP 92697 11520

Details

This list entry was subject to a Minor Amendment on 24 August 2022 to update the name and address and to reformat the text to current standards

SP 9211
11/84

TRING
LONDON ROAD (A41) (south side)
Lower Dunsley Cottage, 1 and 2

(Formerly listed as Nos. 72, and 73, LONDON ROAD (A41))

GV
II
Block of two estate houses. Circa 1880s for Rothschild Estate, probably by William Huckvale. Plum brick, first floor of cusped red tile-hanging, half-timbered gable tops. Steep machine-made red tile roofs and tall moulded brick circular chimneys with spurred caps and moulded bases. Various raised patterns on shafts. A picturesque irregular block facing west. Armorial plaque over ground floor window. Three-light flush casement windows with small panes and segmental arches on ground floor. North front has gabled jetty to left of gabled open timber porch with seats against low brick side-walls.

Listing NGR: SP9269711520

Legacy

The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.

Legacy System number:
355720
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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