Wych Elm Cottage
WYCH ELM COTTAGE, 6, CHURCH END
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1101386
- Date first listed:
- 31-May-1984
- List Entry Name:
- Wych Elm Cottage
- Statutory Address:
- WYCH ELM COTTAGE, 6, CHURCH END
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1101386
- Date first listed:
- 31-May-1984
- List Entry Name:
- Wych Elm Cottage
- Statutory Address 1:
- WYCH ELM COTTAGE, 6, CHURCH END
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:
- WYCH ELM COTTAGE, 6, CHURCH END
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Hertfordshire
- District:
- East Hertfordshire (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Walkern
- National Grid Reference:
- TL 29129 26574
Details
TL 22 NE WALKERN CHURCH END (south side)
1/10 No 6 (Wych Elm Cottage)
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GV II
Small house. C15 or early C16, E bay early C17. Timber frame on tarred brick sill, roughcast with panelled pargetting. Steep half-hipped thatch roof carried down over weatherboarded lean-to at E end. A one and a half storeys, 3-bay former small open hall house with storeyed bay at W end and inserted gable chimney at E. Deeper single-storey C17 one-bay E extension still open to roof. Later weatherboarded lean-to on E. Faces N with lobby entrance by chimney and a single 3-light lattice window. Cast-iron 3- light lattice to E end. Interior shows close-studding, jowled posts in both C15 and Cl7 parts. Collar-rafter roof with purlins added in W end. Deep arched braces to cambered tie beam at middle of hall. Old axial floor joists in W bay. Straight tension bracing in Cl7 E bay. Weatherboarding originally external at W now within lean-to. Notable for the unusual survival of this small late medieval house.
Listing NGR: TL2912926574
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 159656
- 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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