Cowper Cottage
10, LOWER GREEN
Listed on the National Heritage List for England. Search over 400,000 listed places
Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1089092
- Date first listed:
- 11-Jun-1986
- List Entry Name:
- Cowper Cottage
- Statutory Address:
- 10, LOWER GREEN
Have you got a photo to share?
Join the Missing Pieces Project. We want you to share your photos and memories.
Location
Location of this list entry and nearby places that are also listed. Use our map search to find more listed places.
Use of this mapping is subject to terms and conditions .
This map is for quick reference purposes only and may not be to scale.
What is the National Heritage List for England?
The National Heritage List for England is a unique register of our country's most significant historic buildings and sites. The places on the list are protected by law and most are not open to the public.
The list includes:
 |
Buildings |
 |
Scheduled monuments |
 |
Parks and gardens |
 |
Battlefields |
 |
Shipwrecks |
Images of England Project
- Date:
- 2002-04-05
- Reference:
- IOE01/06021/11
- Rights:
- © Mr A. Gude. Source: Historic England Archive
Local Heritage Hub
Unlock and explore hidden histories, aerial photography, and listed buildings and places for every county, district, city and major town across England.
Discover moreOfficial list entry
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1089092
- Date first listed:
- 11-Jun-1986
- List Entry Name:
- Cowper Cottage
- Statutory Address 1:
- 10, LOWER GREEN
- Statutory Address 2:
- COWPER COTTAGE, 11, LOWER GREEN
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:
- 10, LOWER GREEN
- Statutory Address:
- COWPER COTTAGE, 11, LOWER GREEN
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Hertfordshire
- District:
- East Hertfordshire (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Tewin
- National Grid Reference:
- TL 27179 14650
Details
TEWIN LOWER GREEN TL 21 NE (South side) 5/143 Nos. 10, and 11 - (Cowper Cottage) - II
Former Cowper Endowed School, now 2 dwellings. Built 1839 following bequest from H. Cowper in 1838. Converted, altered and re-roofed in C20. Yellow stock brick with white brick dressings. Pantiled roof. H on plan. 1 storey school room with attic on master's house. 2 broad gables to front, that to left for school room has a tall 6 light mullion and transom casement with flanking 2 light windows, hexagon and diamond patterned panes, chamfered white brick surrounds, moulded kneelers to coped gable parapet. Right gabled block was master's house, 1 and 2 light casements, similar details. Central linking range has a 1 storey C20 addition to front with a pointed arched door and 2 light casements. Behind an original 2 light gabled dormer with moulded kneelers, parapet. To right on ridge of linking range is a cross axial stack with central square and outer diagonally set shafts, 5 octagonal pots. Left end, C20 garage addition and a cross gabled bay to rear. Right end, 5 bays with 2 light casements and a C20 gabled entrance porch, 2 light gabled dormer, rear bay a C20 addition. Rear of linking range has a gabled dormer. Interior not inspected. (VCH 1912: Kelly's Directory 1898).
Listing NGR: TL2717914650
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 356253
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Doubleday, A, The Victoria History of the County of Hertford, (1912)
Kellys Directory in Hertfordshire, (1898)
Legal
This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.
Map
This map is for quick reference purposes only and may not be to scale. This copy shows the entry on 23-Jun-2026 at 08:03:51.
Download a full scale map (PDF)End of official list entry
All text content is available under the Open Government Licence v3.0 , except where otherwise stated. Any supplied maps are © Crown Copyright [and database rights] 2026 OS AC0000815036 and may not be reproduced without permission.