White Hart Cottage
WHITE HART COTTAGE, CHESHAM ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1100475
- Date first listed:
- 02-Dec-1986
- List Entry Name:
- White Hart Cottage
- Statutory Address:
- WHITE HART COTTAGE, CHESHAM ROAD
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1100475
- Date first listed:
- 02-Dec-1986
- List Entry Name:
- White Hart Cottage
- Statutory Address 1:
- WHITE HART COTTAGE, CHESHAM 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:
- WHITE HART COTTAGE, CHESHAM ROAD
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Hertfordshire
- District:
- Dacorum (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Bovingdon
- National Grid Reference:
- TL 00597 03254
Details
BOVINGDON CHESHAM ROAD TL 00 SW (South side) Whitehart Cross 6/5 White Hart Cottage -
- II
2 houses, now one house. Early C18 probably incorporating older timber frame ('AD 1717' deeply cut into brick to left of N door), lower W extension and alterations later C20. Red brick in English-bond, some black headers and Flemish bond to E gable. Flint walled W extension. Steep old red tile roof with catslide to rear outshut. A pair of adjoining 1½ storeys houses at crossroads facing S. A gabled dormer window at the eaves to each half and a wide and a narrow small-paned casement window under segmental arch to each house. The narrow windows side by side in middle replace the former front doors. Large external E gable chimney with offsets and oven under tiled roof. Similar W gable chimney removed in C20. 2-bays roof structure and crossbeam for former partition between houses. Tithe Map of 1838 shows 2 houses with small gable outshuts. Interior has exposed beams, open fireplace with bake oven lacking only wooden door. 2 gabled dormers also on rear roofslope. (Robert(1975)no. 7).
Listing NGR: TL0059703254
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 157534
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Roberts, E, The Bovingdon Survey, ()
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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