Mill Cottage
MILL COTTAGE, DIGSWELL LANE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1101076
- Date first listed:
- 04-Nov-1980
- List Entry Name:
- Mill Cottage
- Statutory Address:
- MILL COTTAGE, DIGSWELL LANE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1101076
- Date first listed:
- 04-Nov-1980
- List Entry Name:
- Mill Cottage
- Statutory Address 1:
- MILL COTTAGE, DIGSWELL LANE
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:
- MILL COTTAGE, DIGSWELL LANE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Hertfordshire
- District:
- Welwyn Hatfield (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Welwyn
- National Grid Reference:
- TL 24680 14849
Details
1. 5260 DIGSWELL LANE (north-west side) Mill Cottage TL 21 SW 1/17
II GV
2. Probably early C18, with part rebuilt in early C20. Formerly a mill and millers' house, now a dwelling. Two storeys in red and blue bricks with tile roof. Four windows, one to the right blocked, the others casements of 2 and 3 lights. Three casement windows of 3 lights to the ground floor with segmental heads. Modern door. The mill stream still flows to the left of this section beneath a flat archway with an early C20 canted oriel window above. The wheel and other machinery have been removed. To the left of this one window below a dormer and the rest of the mill premises, converted into living accommodation in the early C20 and slightly taller in build, with a canted oriel above 2 windows. Some original ceiling beams with chamfer remain to the right-hand section. There has been a mill on this site from the time of Domesday Book.
Listing NGR: TL2468014849
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 158235
- 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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