LOUISA COTTAGES ON CORNER OF AKEMAN STREET

LOUISA COTTAGES ON CORNER OF AKEMAN STREET, 1-8, PARK ROAD

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1078003
Date first listed:: 29-May-1986
List Entry Name:: LOUISA COTTAGES ON CORNER OF AKEMAN STREET
Statutory Address:: LOUISA COTTAGES ON CORNER OF AKEMAN STREET, 1-8, PARK ROAD

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1078003
Date first listed:: 29-May-1986
List Entry Name:: LOUISA COTTAGES ON CORNER OF AKEMAN STREET
Statutory Address 1:: LOUISA COTTAGES ON CORNER OF AKEMAN STREET, 1-8, PARK ROAD

This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

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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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Location

Statutory Address:: LOUISA COTTAGES ON CORNER OF AKEMAN STREET, 1-8, PARK ROAD

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County:: Hertfordshire
District:: Dacorum (District Authority)
Parish:: Tring
National Grid Reference:: SP 92385 11074

Details

TRING PARK ROAD SP 9211 (North side) 11/96 Louisa Cottages - Nos. 1-8 inclusive on corner of Akeman Street GV II Almshouses. Nos. 1-5 '1893': 6-8 '1901' (dates and name on front bays) by William Huckvale for Rothschild estate, as almshouses. Timber framed front on chamfered red brick sill, with roughcast red brick infill to exposed frame. Red brick rear wall. Steep machine made red tile roofs. Tall red brick pilastered chimneys. A near symmetrical long, 2-storeys, E plan block facing S. S front has 3 projecting gabled jettied wings with 2-storeys jettied and gabled rectangular bay windows and 3-light leaded mullioned casements. In wider RH part the set back is jettied with 2 minor and one central major gabled 2-storeys jettied similar rectangular bay window, hipped porches in the angles to boarded doors and gabled open timber porch to left of central major bay. In narrower LH part the set back has 2 similar bay windows with gabled porch between and hipped porches in the angles. Convincing timber frame with curved braces in projecting part. Balustraded gallery to E end.

Listing NGR: SP9238511074

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Legacy System number:: 355732
Legacy System:: LBS

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This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.