NUMBERS 1 AND 2 SPELLERS COTTAGES
1 AND 2 SPELLERS COTTAGES, ACORN STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1101964
- Date first listed:
- 11-Sept-1980
- List Entry Name:
- NUMBERS 1 AND 2 SPELLERS COTTAGES
- Statutory Address:
- 1 AND 2 SPELLERS COTTAGES, ACORN STREET
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- Date:
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- Reference:
- IOE01/07758/35
- Rights:
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1101964
- Date first listed:
- 11-Sept-1980
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 19-Sept-1984
- List Entry Name:
- NUMBERS 1 AND 2 SPELLERS COTTAGES
- Statutory Address 1:
- 1 AND 2 SPELLERS COTTAGES, ACORN 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:
- 1 AND 2 SPELLERS COTTAGES, ACORN 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:
- TL4169213393
Details
TL 4113
8/2
11.9.80
HUNSDON
ACORN STREET
(west side)
Spellers Cottages
Nos 1 and 2
(previously listed as Nos 1 and 2 (Spellers Cottage))
GV
II
2 houses adjoining. C16 cottage of 2 bays (No 1), possibly the
Warren House mentioned in 1667 (HLHS (1979) 35). No 1 was
remodelled when No 2 was built in the early C19 to form a semi-
detached pair. 2 storeys. 2 gabled bays to road with entrance
extension to No 2. Tiled roofs with C19 red brick stacks.
Timberframed with rendered fronts. 2-light iron casements with
leaded lights. C19 doorways with hood. No 1 retains original
C16 roof with square crown post with slender curved braces up to
collar purlin. No 2 with C19 rafter and purlin roof. The C18
Speller family of Hunsdon probably acquired the property in the
1840s and may have been responsible for the additions and
remodelling. A picturesque pair of semi-detached estate cottages
formed by the extension and disguising of a C16 cottage c1840.
Part of a group with Spellers, and with Rosella to NE.
Listing NGR: TL4169213393
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 159938
- 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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