Wayside, and Oak Cottage
WAYSIDE, AND OAK COTTAGE, LEIGHTON BUZZARD ROAD (A4146)
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1101239
- Date first listed:
- 19-Mar-1987
- List Entry Name:
- Wayside, and Oak Cottage
- Statutory Address:
- WAYSIDE, AND OAK COTTAGE, LEIGHTON BUZZARD ROAD (A4146)
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- Date:
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- Reference:
- IOE01/01102/18
- Rights:
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1101239
- Date first listed:
- 19-Mar-1987
- List Entry Name:
- Wayside, and Oak Cottage
- Statutory Address 1:
- WAYSIDE, AND OAK COTTAGE, LEIGHTON BUZZARD ROAD (A4146)
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:
- WAYSIDE, AND OAK COTTAGE, LEIGHTON BUZZARD ROAD (A4146)
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 03604 10626
Details
GREAT GADDESDEN LEIGHTON BUZZARD ROAD (A4146) TL 0310 (West side) 10/139 Wayside, and Oak Cottage
GV II
House, now 2 houses. C16, altered and extended to W in C17, W end C20. Timber frame on painted brick sill with painted brick as infill and rebuilding of ground floor in W part. Steep old red tile roofs. A long block with 2-storeys in older E part (Wayside) and 1½ storeys in W part with 2 gabled dormers at eaves. E part has 3 upper windows, the middle carried above eaves as a swept dormer, and 2 ground floor windows with external wooden shutters with plank door between under lean-to timber porch. Casement windows with wrought iron frames and rectangular leaded lights. 2-storeys rear wing with weatherboarded gable triangle. Road side of Oak Cottage has a straight joint in middle marking W extension and an old 3-light leaded casement. Framed 2-storeys rear wing with square framing and weatherboarded gable. Older part (Wayside) has clasped-purlin roof on collar truss at E gable.
Listing NGR: TL0360810622
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 157918
- 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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