Verlam Cottage
VERLAM COTTAGE, RIVER HILL
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1100388
- Date first listed:
- 19-Mar-1987
- List Entry Name:
- Verlam Cottage
- Statutory Address:
- VERLAM COTTAGE, RIVER HILL
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1100388
- Date first listed:
- 19-Mar-1987
- List Entry Name:
- Verlam Cottage
- Statutory Address 1:
- VERLAM COTTAGE, RIVER HILL
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:
- VERLAM COTTAGE, RIVER HILL
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Hertfordshire
- District:
- Dacorum (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Flamstead
- National Grid Reference:
- TL 07895 14663
Details
FLAMSTEAD RIVER HILL TL 0714 (West side) 9/48 Verlam Cottage - GV II
House, sometime 4 cottages, now one house. Early C17, brick cased and subdivided in late C18, rear wing and made again into one house in later C20. Timber frame, red brick ground floor walls in Flemish-bond, upper floor cased in brick-on-edge. Steep old red tile roof. A 2-storeys 6-windows long house, set well back from street, facing E, with catslide rear outshut and lower gabled rear wing with porch and new entrance in rear angle. E front has 6 2-lights small-pane sliding Yorkshire casements under the eaves. 4 3-lights similar windows to ground floor with cambered arches. Similar arches to 2 blocked and 2 plank doors in heavy frames. Rear has cast-iron small-pane, casements in heavy wooden frames. 2 large square internal chimneys the southern chimney older and probably the survivor of a 3 cells lobby-entry C17 plan arrangement. Interior has chamfered axial beams with hollow stops. Jowled posts and clasped-purlin roof with straight wind-braces and squint-butted scarf joint in wallplate.
Listing NGR: TL0789514663
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 157828
- 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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