The Old Cottage Restaurant
THE OLD COTTAGE RESTAURANT, 18, HIGH STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1100448
- Date first listed:
- 26-Jan-1967
- List Entry Name:
- The Old Cottage Restaurant
- Statutory Address:
- THE OLD COTTAGE RESTAURANT, 18, HIGH STREET
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1100448
- Date first listed:
- 26-Jan-1967
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 02-Dec-1986
- List Entry Name:
- The Old Cottage Restaurant
- Statutory Address 1:
- THE OLD COTTAGE RESTAURANT, 18, HIGH STREET
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:
- THE OLD COTTAGE RESTAURANT, 18, HIGH STREET
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Hertfordshire
- District:
- Dacorum (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Kings Langley
- National Grid Reference:
- TL 07157 02762
Details
KINGS LANGLEY HIGH STREET TL 0702 (West side) 13/142 No. 18 (The Old 26.1.67 Cottage Restaurant) (formerly listed as No 18)
GV II
House, now a restaurant. C16 or earlier N crosswing, C17 short S hall range, early C18 red brick casing to ground floor front and rear gable. Timber frame with wide storey-height plastered panels at front, brick nogged on rear wall of hall range, red brick to front ground floor and rear gable, gable triangles hung with scalloped tiles. Steep old red tile roofs, hipped with gablet around S gable formerly external chimney with diagonal square shafts and moulded caps. A small T-plan house of 2 storeys with a cellar and part loft in the crosswing. E front facing street has gabled wing on RH flush with front of S range. One window to each floor in each part. LH part has flush 3-light cast iron lattice casements: RH part has similar 1st floor window but an early C18 small paned sash window of 3 equal lights to ground floor with trellis porch and door into end of crosswing on LH. Front possibly extended in early C19 about 1m to S. 3 early C18 narrow flush sash windows at 1st floor rear of crosswing (one blocked). Interior has heavy timbers with jowled posts and curved tension braces, large curved braces to cambered tie- beams of clasped purlin roof in 2-bay crosswing. Lower S hall range butted to crosswing has a cambered tie-beam, jowled posts and shutter rebate in wallplate at rear. Moulded mitred panelling engraved 'NK 1569 MK' flanked by scratch moulded panelling probably came from the former Manor House demolished in C19. C18 panelling to ground floor rooms with moulded cornice and heavy surround with moulded shelf to S room. Axial beam chamfered with bar stops.6-panel fielded door to left of fireplace. 2-panel door to stair in crosswing. Rebated timber frame for small cupboard in each jamb of fireplace. (RCHM(1911)135 No. 4: KLLHMS report 1979 in NMR).
Listing NGR: TL0715702762
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 157673
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Kings Langley Local History and Museum Society Report in Kings Langley Local History and Museum Society Report, (1979)
Other
Inventory of the Historical Monuments of Hertfordshire, (1910)
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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