Bentley's Cottage
BENTLEY'S COTTAGE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1101873
- Date first listed:
- 13-Dec-1984
- List Entry Name:
- Bentley's Cottage
- Statutory Address:
- BENTLEY'S COTTAGE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1101873
- Date first listed:
- 13-Dec-1984
- List Entry Name:
- Bentley's Cottage
- Statutory Address 1:
- BENTLEY'S 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:
- BENTLEY'S COTTAGE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Hertfordshire
- District:
- East Hertfordshire (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Anstey
- National Grid Reference:
- TL 40802 33317
Details
TL 4033 ANSTEY CHEAPSIDE (North side)
6/9 Bentley's Cottage -
GV II
House. Circa 1700, W parts 1970's. Timber frame on black stuccoed plinth in older part. White weatherboarding and thatched roof with 4 eyebrow dormers at front. Red tiled gabled rear wing and lean-to W porch set back. A long 16 storeys, 3-cells plan house facing S. The older E part originally had a winding stair beside the then W gable internal chimney with its breadoven, and a single large ground floor room with narrow service room at E end. Central entrance and 2 front windows with dormers over. The oven projected to W into a barn, now replaced by a matching 2 dormer W extension with a door and end window. Flush 2-light casement windows to dormer and E part. 3-light window to W part. Iron door to oven, and axial beams in E part. (Bailey (1980)19).
Listing NGR: TL4080233317
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 160232
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Other
Bailey, (1980)
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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