Burnside Cottage Hunts Cottage

BURNSIDE COTTAGE, MUNDEN ROAD

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Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II*
List Entry Number:
1102267
Date first listed:
24-Jan-1967
List Entry Name:
Burnside Cottage Hunts Cottage
Statutory Address:
BURNSIDE COTTAGE, MUNDEN ROAD

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II*
List Entry Number:
1102267
Date first listed:
24-Jan-1967
Date of most recent amendment:
24-Jan-1984
List Entry Name:
Burnside Cottage Hunts Cottage
Statutory Address 1:
BURNSIDE COTTAGE, MUNDEN ROAD
Statutory Address 2:
HUNTS COTTAGE, MUNDEN ROAD

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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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Corrections and minor amendments

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.

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Corrections and minor amendments

Location

Statutory Address:
BURNSIDE COTTAGE, MUNDEN ROAD
Statutory Address:
HUNTS COTTAGE, MUNDEN ROAD

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

County:
Hertfordshire
District:
East Hertfordshire (District Authority)
Parish:
Little Munden
National Grid Reference:
TL3324021330

Details

Dane End
TL 3321 LITTLE MUNDEN MUNDEN ROAD
(west side)

10/12 Burnside Cottage,
and Hunts Cottage
(formerly listed as Three Cottages n. of
24.1.67 the entrance to the Nurseries under the
rural district of Ware)

GV II*

House, now 2 houses. C14 or early C15, C17 S wing and inserted
floor and central chimney in hall. Divided in C18 or early C19.
Timber frame plastered with red brick underbuilding of formerly
jettied front of N wing. Steep old red tile roofs. Former open-
hall house with N crosswing, and S crosswing probably built in
C17. Lobby entrance created with insertion of floor in hall.
One and a half storeys with 2-storeys gabled wings, facing E.
Roof of hall part sweeps down at front with a window and door in
line with tall central chimney of conjoined square shafts.
Bargeboarded gabled wings with one window to each floor. 2-light
small-paned casement windows generally. Flush box sash windows
with many small panes, in N wing. Open truss of hall has tie-
beam moulded with 2 orders, chamfered and quadrant, with crown-
post braced to tie-beam. Cambered tie beam cut through to build
chimney stack and removed piece reused as fireplace lintel.
Curved tension bracing in N wing (Hunts Cottage) and close
studding. Axial ceiling beams inserted in hall are chamfered
with pyramid stop. (RCHM Typescript).


Listing NGR: TL3324021330

Legacy

The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.

Legacy System number:
161333
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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