THE COTTAGE TINKWOOD COTTAGE

55-61, HIGH STREET

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Overview

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1101941
Date first listed:: 24-Jan-1967
List Entry Name:: THE COTTAGE TINKWOOD COTTAGE
Statutory Address:: 55-61, HIGH STREET

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Date:: 2002-02-16
Reference:: IOE01/05151/15
Rights:: © Mr A. Gude. Source: Historic England Archive

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1101941
Date first listed:: 24-Jan-1967
List Entry Name:: THE COTTAGE TINKWOOD COTTAGE
Statutory Address 1:: 55-61, HIGH STREET
Statutory Address 2:: THE COTTAGE, 65, HIGH STREET
Statutory Address 3:: TINKWOOD COTTAGE, 63, HIGH STREET

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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This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

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:: 55-61, HIGH STREET
Statutory Address:: THE COTTAGE, 65, HIGH STREET
Statutory Address:: TINKWOOD COTTAGE, 63, HIGH STREET

The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.

County:: Hertfordshire
District:: East Hertfordshire (District Authority)
Parish:: Hunsdon
National Grid Reference:: TL 41784 14152

Details

TL 4114 HUNSDON HIGH STREET (west side) Hunsdon village

7/26 Nos 55, 57, 59, 61, 63 (Tinkwood Cottage) ) 24.1.67 and 65 (The Cottage)

GV II

Block of 6 houses, C17 or C18 terrace of small timberframed plastered 2 storeys houses with steep old red tile roofs. Nos 55 and 65 form cross wings and have a projecting gabled front to the street, with heavy cusped bargeboards. 2 large decorative central chimneys and a third square stack serving 63 and 65. 2- light wooden casement windows 1 on each floor in each house. A continuous dripboard on shaped brackets runs above all Ground floor openings. Small gabled porches to 59, 61 and 63. No 65 is weatherboarded on 1st floor. 2-light attic window in gable to 55. Modillioned cornice to N return of 55 and to 57 and 59. 1 large Ground floor room to each house and a shallow rear service room. A picturesque group of timber framed village houses in the middle of the Conservation Area.

Listing NGR: TL4178414152

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Legacy System number:: 159987
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.