Porch Cottage Widford Stores
PORCH COTTAGE, HIGH STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1101956
- Date first listed:
- 19-Sept-1984
- List Entry Name:
- Porch Cottage Widford Stores
- Statutory Address:
- PORCH COTTAGE, HIGH STREET
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1101956
- Date first listed:
- 19-Sept-1984
- List Entry Name:
- Porch Cottage Widford Stores
- Statutory Address 1:
- PORCH COTTAGE, HIGH STREET
- Statutory Address 2:
- WIDFORD STORES, HIGH STREET
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:
- PORCH COTTAGE, HIGH STREET
- Statutory Address:
- WIDFORD STORES, 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:
- Widford
- National Grid Reference:
- TL 42010 15917
Details
TL 4215 WIDFORD HIGH STREET (west side) Widford village
6/9 Widford Stores and Porch Cottage -
GV II
House, now shop and house. Later C17, altered in early C19. Timberframed plastered house on brickbase. Low pitched slate roof hipped to left. A long 2 storeys 4-window house formerly a wheelwrights house with workshop in S half (now Widford Stores) 2 room and end-chimney plan with large internal gable chimney at N. Formerly one and a half storeys it was raised to 2 full storeys and re-windowed and reroofed in early C19. Flushed box sash windows with moulded architraves on upper floor with 8/8 panes. Left hand window altered to small-paned 2-light casement similar to 2 Ground Floor windows in centre and at N end. 2-panel half- glazed door to shop with small Victorian display window to the left in the form of an elongated sash window. Modern door to right (Porch Cottage) recently moved from extreme right and replacing a window. Plastered soffit to eaves overhang. Continuous dripboard at 1st floor level. Chamfer and stopped axial beams and squared joists in Porch Cottage. Jowled posts and cambered tie beams in bedroom partitions. An historic timberframed house. Part of a varied group in the middle of the Conservation Area.
Listing NGR: TL4201015917
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 160016
- 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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