Forge Cottage
FORGE COTTAGE, CHIPPERFIELD ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1100476
- Date first listed:
- 02-Dec-1986
- List Entry Name:
- Forge Cottage
- Statutory Address:
- FORGE COTTAGE, CHIPPERFIELD ROAD
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1100476
- Date first listed:
- 02-Dec-1986
- List Entry Name:
- Forge Cottage
- Statutory Address 1:
- FORGE COTTAGE, CHIPPERFIELD 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:
- FORGE COTTAGE, CHIPPERFIELD 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 01798 03488
Details
BOVINGDON CHIPPERFIELD ROAD TL 0103 (North side) 10/6 No. 27 - (Forge Cottage)
- II
House. C16, floor and chimney C17, NW extension C18/C19, E part C20. Timber frame brick nogged, later parts brick, front plastered and lined as ashlar. Steep old red tile roofs with 3 changes of height along front. A complex 4-cells, 2 storeys, internal chimney plan house facing S, with former baffle entry and stair turret behind chimney. Complex large 3-stepped chimney rises in rear slope of roof. 4 windows on each floor on S front in irregular arrangement. 3-light cast iron small paned casements on each floor. Battened door under lean-to tiled porch leads into stair hall of C20 E extension. Axial chamfered floor beam in first room on LH, with chamfered and stopped joists. Beyond massive chimney a higher room with chamfered floor beams and square joists. Jowled posts and cambered tie-beam. Wide panels in wall framing. Curved braces to tie beams. Curved wind-braces to clasped purlin queen-struts and collar truss. Thick old floor tiles stamped with cross on a shield. Rear outshut with catslide roof, and large late external chimneys at rear NW and at W gable. Boxmoor grazing rights plaque No. 583 (No. 582 screwed to back door). (Roberts(1975)No. 10).
Listing NGR: TL0179803488
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 157535
- 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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