Home Close Cottages
HOME CLOSE COTTAGES, 1-4, BALDOCK ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1101286
- Date first listed:
- 06-Jul-1984
- List Entry Name:
- Home Close Cottages
- Statutory Address:
- HOME CLOSE COTTAGES, 1-4, BALDOCK ROAD
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1101286
- Date first listed:
- 06-Jul-1984
- List Entry Name:
- Home Close Cottages
- Statutory Address 1:
- HOME CLOSE COTTAGES, 1-4, BALDOCK 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.
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:
- HOME CLOSE COTTAGES, 1-4, BALDOCK ROAD
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Hertfordshire
- District:
- East Hertfordshire (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Cottered
- National Grid Reference:
- TL 32084 29320
Details
TL 3229 COTTERED BALDOCK ROAD (south side)
6/6 Home Close Cottages Nos 1 to 4 even) -
GV II
A range of houses, now 4 houses. C17 or earlier, altered in C18 and C19. Timber frames on brick sills, roughcast with dark weatherboarded aprons. Steep thatched roofs. Nos 1 (at E), 3, and 4 of one and a half storeys with eyebrow dormers at the eaves: No 2 of 2-storeys; all facing N. Central chimneys and axial floor beams. No 1 has a large central chimney with brick oven projecting at front flanked by 2-light flush casement windows with lattice leading. Plank door near each end of front. E gable half-hipped and faced in red brick up to wallplate level. Taller No2 has a central chimney rising through the rear slope heating the E room and stair to N of it to W of entrance. Front has 2 flush Yorkshire sliding casement windows to each floor and a plank door beside each of the lower windows. Lower houses to W have 4 dormers, 3 chimneys, 3 plank doors and a front outshut to NW corner. A most picturesque thatched group.
Listing NGR: TL3208429320
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 159836
- 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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