Reeves Cottage

REEVES COTTAGE, CRUNNELLS GREEN

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Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1102424
Date first listed:
08-Feb-1988
List Entry Name:
Reeves Cottage
Statutory Address:
REEVES COTTAGE, CRUNNELLS GREEN
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Official list entry

Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1102424
Date first listed:
08-Feb-1988
List Entry Name:
Reeves Cottage
Statutory Address 1:
REEVES COTTAGE, CRUNNELLS GREEN

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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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:
REEVES COTTAGE, CRUNNELLS GREEN

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

County:
Hertfordshire
District:
North Hertfordshire (District Authority)
Parish:
Preston
National Grid Reference:
TL 18076 24301

Details

TL 1824 PRESTON CRUNNELLS GREEN (West side)

9/88 Reeves Cottage

II

House. Late medieval open hall house, chimney stack and floors inserted in early C17, front lean-to extension C18, S end extension 1970s. Timber frame, roughcast with steep old red tiled roof carried down as catslide over front extension. A 16 storeys house facing E with canted bay window with hipped tiled roof to left of door and lean-to red brick extension on right. A 3-lights and single-light box dormer at eaves. Boarded door under flat hood on shaped brackets. Large internal chimney, with corbelled cap, a third from N end. Small projecting S gable stack flanked by a window on each side on each floor. Interior has exposed frame, axial beams. Fragmentary evidence of a 2-bays open hall with smoke blackened rafters remaining. House was presumably larger. Bar and hollow stops to inserted beam in N room similar to stops on lintels to back-to-back fireplaces in stack built around the central truss. Formerly called Hill Farm Cottage. (RCHM Typescript).

Listing NGR: TL1807624301

Legacy

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Legacy System number:
162880
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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