Numbers 14 (Alms Cottages) And 15-18 Cambridge Road
15-18, CAMBRIDGE ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1078708
- Date first listed:
- 30-Sept-1983
- List Entry Name:
- Numbers 14 (Alms Cottages) And 15-18 Cambridge Road
- Statutory Address:
- 15-18, CAMBRIDGE ROAD
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1078708
- Date first listed:
- 30-Sept-1983
- List Entry Name:
- Numbers 14 (Alms Cottages) And 15-18 Cambridge Road
- Statutory Address 1:
- 15-18, CAMBRIDGE ROAD
- Statutory Address 2:
- ALMS COTTAGES, 14, CAMBRIDGE 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.
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:
- 15-18, CAMBRIDGE ROAD
- Statutory Address:
- ALMS COTTAGES, 14, CAMBRIDGE ROAD
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Hertfordshire
- District:
- East Hertfordshire (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Thundridge
- National Grid Reference:
- TL3597617630
Details
TL 3517
9/2
THUNDRIDGE
CAMBRIDGE ROAD
(east side)
Wadesmill
No 14 (Alms Cottages) and Nos 15 to 18 (consec)
GV
II
2 adjoining blocks of houses. Late C18. Grey/yellow brick with
a low plastered plinth and old red tile roofs (N block hipped at
N end). 2-storeys with 1-window on each floor to each house and
the door remote from the fireplace and chimney stack. 3-light
wooden casement windows under segmental arches on both floors.
Flat door hoods on shaped brackets. No 14 at the lower end of
the slope contains almshouses founded in 1794 for 4-widows. It
is now 2 dwellings with a common entrance door and projects a
little in advance of the N (uphill) block. The lower windows of
No 14 are 2-light small paned cast iron casements. 4-panel flush
beaded door with flat hood on shaped brackets with guttae at the
springing. Nos 15 - 18 are 2 handed pairs of houses with large
shared chimneys. They are probably slightly later in date than
No 14, and are included for group value.
Listing NGR: TL3597617630
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 355996
- 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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