Mauldens Cottage
MAULDENS COTTAGE, VENUS HILL
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1100489
- Date first listed:
- 02-Dec-1986
- List Entry Name:
- Mauldens Cottage
- Statutory Address:
- MAULDENS COTTAGE, VENUS HILL
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1100489
- Date first listed:
- 02-Dec-1986
- List Entry Name:
- Mauldens Cottage
- Statutory Address 1:
- MAULDENS COTTAGE, VENUS 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:
- MAULDENS COTTAGE, VENUS HILL
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 01001 01864
Details
BOVINGDON VENUS HILL TL 00 SW (South side) 6/42 Mauldens Cottage -
- II
House. Early C17, rear extensions later C20. Timber frame on chamfered stuccoed sill, with red brick and painted brick infill between exposed timber frame. Ground floor stuccoed. Steep old red tile roof half-hipped with gablets. A 2-storeys, 2 cells, internal chimney, lobby-entry plan house facing N with 1½ storeys gabled porch and 2 front windows to each floor. Flush casement windows with lattice leaded glazing. Timber frame has jowled posts and end walls have wide storey-height panels. Front nearly symmetrical with half-height rail and narrower panels on 1st floor. Convex tension braces in frame and convex brace in porch. Chimney of 2 staggered square conjoined shafts. Unusually complete interior with moulded and stopped joists and axial floor beams, ledged plank doors on iron hooks and bands, carpenters assembly numbers, and wide fireplace to E room has 3 small recesses and an oven with iron door. The stair to rear of chimney now rises from E room but may originally have risen from smaller W room. Cast iron Boxmoor grazing rights plaque no. 614. (Roberts(1975)No.34).
Listing NGR: TL0098401860
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 157569
- 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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