Ballingdon Cottage

BALLINGDON COTTAGE, CLEMENTS END ROAD

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Overview

Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1101255
Date first listed:
26-Jan-1967
List Entry Name:
Ballingdon Cottage
Statutory Address:
BALLINGDON COTTAGE, CLEMENTS END ROAD

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1101255
Date first listed:
26-Jan-1967
List Entry Name:
Ballingdon Cottage
Statutory Address 1:
BALLINGDON COTTAGE, CLEMENTS END ROAD

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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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

Location

Statutory Address:
BALLINGDON COTTAGE, CLEMENTS END ROAD

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 03871 13993

Details

GREAT GADDESDEN CLEMENTS END ROAD TL 01 SW (West side) Ballingdon Bottom

3/73 Ballingdon Cottage 26.1.67

GV II

House. Late C15/early C16 open hall house, house heightened to 2 storeys and floors inserted in C17 when internal chimney built in hall and N bay added (or completely rebuilt), interior renovated c.1950s. Timber frame on low brick sill, red brick infill, chimneys, and casing to ground floor at rear, steep old red tile roof. A 2-storeys house facing W now of 4 structural bays with large internal chimney rising to rear of ridge, and later external gable chimneys serving ground floor fireplaces at each end. Flush wooden casement windows renewed, and battened door to small gabled porch near middle of front. The middle 2 bays were the former hall and this and the S service bay were open to the roof. The former cross-passage ran through the S end of the hall and was maintained when the fireplace was built backing onto it with a staircase behind. Mortices on axial beam in S bay show line of former partition. Clasped-purlin roof with curved wind-braces. (RCHM Typescript).

Listing NGR: TL0387113993

Legacy

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Legacy System number:
157854
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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