Yew Tree Cottages
2 AND 3 YEW TREE COTTAGES, HUNSDON ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1101959
- Date first listed:
- 19-Sept-1984
- List Entry Name:
- Yew Tree Cottages
- Statutory Address:
- 2 AND 3 YEW TREE COTTAGES, HUNSDON ROAD
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1101959
- Date first listed:
- 19-Sept-1984
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 23-Apr-1985
- List Entry Name:
- Yew Tree Cottages
- Statutory Address 1:
- 2 AND 3 YEW TREE COTTAGES, HUNSDON ROAD
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:
- 2 AND 3 YEW TREE COTTAGES, HUNSDON ROAD
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:
- TL4200115576
Details
TL 4115 WIDFORD HUNSDON ROAD
(east side)
Widford Village
5/16 Yew Tree Cottages
Nos 2 and 4
-
GV II
Amend address to read as follows:
Yew Tree Cottages
Nos 2 and 3
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TL 4115 WIDFORD HUNSDON ROAD
(east side)
Widford village
5/16 Yew Tree Cottages
Nos 2 and 4
-
GV II
2 houses, now one house. C17 or earlier with a small early C19
brick house on S now incorporated and disguised. Timberframed
and plastered with weatherboarding to front Ground Floor. Steep
red tiled gabled roof. Similar matching finishes applied on top
of yellow stock brickwork of C19 S part. 2 storeys with 2 widely
spaced windows to each floor of each half. C19 2-light casement
windows with Gothick tracery recessed in S half but set flush
with a moulded architrave in the older N part. This part has a
lobby entry symmetrical 2 room plan with a large central chimney
of 3 flues just behind the ridge. The shallower S part had until
c1980 a central door. It has a symmetrical 2 room plan with end
chimneys, partly external and in red brick on the S. Modern oak
door in heavy older frame under small bracketed hood, central to
N part. Formerly there was a 2 storeys brick house similar to
the S part, adjoining on the N. A picturesque C17 house with C19
S part. Part of a varied group in this part of the Conservation
Area.
Listing NGR: TL4200115576
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 160025
- 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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