Pipers Cottage

PIPERS COTTAGE, 1, PIPERS HILL

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Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1101232
Date first listed:
19-Mar-1987
List Entry Name:
Pipers Cottage
Statutory Address:
PIPERS COTTAGE, 1, PIPERS HILL
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Official list entry

Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1101232
Date first listed:
19-Mar-1987
List Entry Name:
Pipers Cottage
Statutory Address 1:
PIPERS COTTAGE, 1, PIPERS 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.

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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:
PIPERS COTTAGE, 1, PIPERS HILL

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

County:
Hertfordshire
District:
Dacorum (District Authority)
Parish:
Great Gaddesden
National Grid Reference:
TL 02730 11100

Details

GREAT GADDESDEN PIPERS HILL TL 01 SW (South side) 3/119 No. 1 - (Pipers Cottage)

GV II

House. Late C16, renovated in C19. Timber frame with red brick infill and steep old red tile roof. E end and rear wall cased in red brick. Lean-to garage at N end in red brick with slated roof. A small 2-storeys house on roadside facing N. Appearance similar to when it was drawn by Buckler in 1830s (HRO). 2 windows with 4-light ovolo-moulded oriel window prominent on 1st floor. Lattice leaded glazing with C17/C18 iron opening lights. Door into left hand part of font. Rear has cambered arches to the 2-light lattice leaded casement windows on 1st floor, 3-light on ground floor, and a plank door in a heavy frame, almost in-line with front door. Large internal chimney in line with rear door serves single large room to W with exposed framing in W end, chamfered axial and cross-beams and staircase rising up W wall in a space formerly partitioned from main room. Moulded plank door on 1st floor. Clasped- purlin roof.

Listing NGR: TL0288411182

Legacy

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

Legacy System number:
157898
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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