Clayton Cottage

CLAYTON COTTAGE, 13, FRITHSDEN

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Overview

Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1101222
Date first listed:
02-Nov-1977
List Entry Name:
Clayton Cottage
Statutory Address:
CLAYTON COTTAGE, 13, FRITHSDEN

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1101222
Date first listed:
02-Nov-1977
Date of most recent amendment:
19-Mar-1987
List Entry Name:
Clayton Cottage
Statutory Address 1:
CLAYTON COTTAGE, 13, FRITHSDEN

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.

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Corrections and minor amendments

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.

Understanding list entries

Corrections and minor amendments

Location

Statutory Address:
CLAYTON COTTAGE, 13, FRITHSDEN

The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.

County:
Hertfordshire
District:
Dacorum (District Authority)
Parish:
Nettleden with Potten End
National Grid Reference:
TL 01720 09828

Details

TL 00 NW NETTLEDEN WITH FRITHSDEN POTTEN END (East side)

5/199 No. 13 2.11.77 (Clayton Cottage) (Formerly listed as No. 13)

- II

House. Late C16 or early C17, altered in early C18, subsequently extended at both ends. Timber frame, red brick infill to ground floor and red tilehanging to 1st floor. End parts roughcast. Steep old red tile roof. A long 2-storeys house facing S with 4 windows on 1st floor and 6 on ground floor with gable entrances now. Flush casement windows renewed with lattice leaded glazing. Old middle part comprises a hall and subdivided inner room to W. Large internal chimney built in narrow E bay with former cross-passage behind it on E. Cross-beam dividing ground floor has mortice and wattle holes for original partition. C18 staircase at rear of E room with turned balusters and moulded handrail of good quality in short balustrade. Early C19 formerly projecting chimney at W end of middle part. E gable internal chimney to E extension. (RCHM Typescript).

Listing NGR: TL0172009828

Legacy

The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.

Legacy System number:
157979
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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