DOWN COTTAGE
Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1101983
- Date first listed:
- 19-Sep-1984
- Statutory Address:
- 21, HIGH STREET
- Statutory Address:
- DOWN COTTAGE, 23, HIGH STREET
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Location
- Statutory Address:
- 21, HIGH STREET
- Statutory Address:
- DOWN COTTAGE, 23, 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 41695 14085
Details
TL 4114 HUNSDON HIGH STREET
(west side)
Hunsdon village
7/20 No 21
NO 23 (Down Gottage)
-
GV II
House, now 2 houses. C17. One and a half storeys timberframed
plastered house facing S with timberframed weatherboarded low 2
storeys rear addition in C18 when 3 cottages, now 2 houses.
Steep old red tiled front slope to gabled roof with 3 gabled
dormers along the wall-head. Rear slope of red pantiles extends
over rear addition. 3-unit former lobby-entry plan with No 21
representing hall and parlour: No 23 the service room with
mortices of an axial partition in its chamfered and stopped axial
beam. Large central chimney with back-to-back fireplaces in No
21. Later external gable chimney to No 23. Plastered front with
2-light casement windows in the 3 dormers. C18 plate casement to
No 23. 3-light wooden casement window to each house, 2-light
casement in blocked doorway in No 21. 4-panel flush beaded C19
door to No 23 and modern boarded door and renewed windows to No
21. Continuous dripboard on shaped brackets over Ground floor
openings. An unusually wide span timberframed structure exposed
in both houses. Unjowled posts and straight tension bracing.
Stairs rise against original rear wall. Axial floor beam with
squared joists. Chamfered lintel to open fireplace in hall. An
historic C17 3-unit central chimney house of special interest.
Part of a picturesque group in the centre of the village
Conservation Area.
Listing NGR: TL4169514085
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 159981
- 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.
End of official listing
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