Oak Cottage
OAK COTTAGE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1101855
- Date first listed:
- 22-Feb-1967
- List Entry Name:
- Oak Cottage
- Statutory Address:
- OAK COTTAGE
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- 2001-07-24
- Reference:
- IOE01/05000/29
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1101855
- Date first listed:
- 22-Feb-1967
- List Entry Name:
- Oak Cottage
- Statutory Address 1:
- OAK COTTAGE
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:
- OAK COTTAGE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Hertfordshire
- District:
- East Hertfordshire (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Hormead
- National Grid Reference:
- TL3902629420
Details
TL 3929
12/66
22.2.67
HORMEAD
HARE STREET
(East side)
Oak Cottage
GV
II*
House. C15 or early C16 open hall house with storeyed S bay and N cross-
wing, hall floored, re-roofed and chimney built at lower end in late C16
or early C17 and stair bay added to rear of crosswing, restored and
rear lean-to replaced by kitchen wing 1963. Timber frame on brick sill,
front with exposed close-studding and plastered N end and infill panels,
with weatherboarding on S end and steep old red tile roofs, half hip at S
end. A late medieval T-plan hall house facing W with hall, cross-passage
with buttery and pantry doors on S, 4-centred arched doorways to front
and rear, jettied 2-storeys N crosswing at upper end with original
clasped-purlin roof and wind braces and curved tension braces recessed
into the inside of the walls so as not to appear externally. W front has
3-light C19 flush casement windows to Ground Floor and 1st floor of
crosswing, a large gabled dormer at the front eaves of the hall range, a
tall red brick internal chimney, and a battened door in a Tudor arched
frame with sunk spandrels. External chimney on N side of crosswing and
later chimney for 1st floor bedroom beside it. Curved knee-braces to
pronounced front jetty. Interior has crossbeam and flat wide joists in
crosswing,deep chamfered axial beam and chamfered joists over hall,
crossbeam over hall a little N of present chimney carried on conical
wood corbels on posts, 4-centred head to rear door of crosspassage but
square chamfered heads to pair of service doors. Framing for stair next
rear wall, tension bracing on inside of S end wall and side walls of end
bay with shutter groove for window. Clasped-purlin roof over S bay but
rest of hall range roof rebuilt with butt purlins and dormer framing.
Large curved braces in wall formerly the S end of open hall. 2-bay
crosswing with jowled posts and central tie-beam. Framing of S end has
sunk considerably and false-framing conceals this at front and keeps
eaves level. (Photos in NMR).
Listing NGR: TL3902629420
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 160287
- 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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