Hanging Cover Cottage
HANGING COVER COTTAGE, BARWICK ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1102388
- Date first listed:
- 23-Nov-1983
- List Entry Name:
- Hanging Cover Cottage
- Statutory Address:
- HANGING COVER COTTAGE, BARWICK ROAD
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1102388
- Date first listed:
- 23-Nov-1983
- List Entry Name:
- Hanging Cover Cottage
- Statutory Address 1:
- HANGING COVER COTTAGE, BARWICK 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:
- HANGING COVER COTTAGE, BARWICK ROAD
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Hertfordshire
- District:
- East Hertfordshire (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Standon
- National Grid Reference:
- TL 38746 20215
Details
Hanging Wood TL 32 SE STANDON BARWICK ROAD (west side) )
1/27 Hanging Cover Cottage
GV II
House. Circa 1500, altered in C17, restored c1970, extended at N 1982. Timber frame on brick and flint plinth. Plastered above, weatherboarded below. Steep old red tile roofs. One and a half storeys old S part and C20 single-storey weatherboarded N part in line facing E. Large central chimney at the change of height and small external gable chimney at S. Gabled dormer to old part with 2-light casement below and a boarded door to right in a Tudor arched. doorway. 2 small casement oriels on S end, one to each floor. The old part of the house comprises the upper end bay of a formerly 2-bay open hall, and the adjoining 2-storeyed bay. Crown-post roof with longitudial arched braces to collar purlin and cambered tie-beam with arched brace. Unusual jointing detail in ground floor partition where most studs are kept firm by a combination of tongue-and-groove and wedges. Frame exposed inside house. (RCHM Typescript)
Listing NGR: TL3874620215
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 161003
- 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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