FIR TREE COTTAGE
Overview
Heritage Category: Listed Building
Grade: II
List Entry Number: 1102426
Date first listed: 08-Feb-1988
Statutory Address: FIR TREE COTTAGE, THE GREEN
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Location
Statutory Address: FIR TREE COTTAGE, THE 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 17981 24716
Summary
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Reasons for Designation
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History
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Details
TL 1724 PRESTON THE GREEN
(West side)
8/91 Fig Tree Cottage
GV II
House. C16 former open hall house, floor and chimney inserted in late
C16, S bay with its rear outshut probably C17, C18 brick casing of walls
with wall heightened in framing to 2-storeys in older part of house.
Timber frame roughcast with ground floor front of red brick in
Flemish-bond. Steep old red tile roof, part of rear slope slated. A
2-storeys house facing E, partly overlapped at N by a low link and Vine
Cottage. 2 windows on each floor. 3-lights flush casement windows with
rectangular quarries in the leaded glazing. Canted oriel window to left
of battened front door. Small window to right of door. Internal chimney
a third from N end marking the older part of the house. Internal gable
chimney added to formerly unheated S bay. Interior has studs on former S
wall of hall exposed as a screen with peg hole in post for bench
support. Elaborate moulded axial beam with central roll, and ogee,
reserved chamfer and hollow on each side. Scratch moulding on soffit of
joists. Beam carried on post rather than jointed into horizontal timbers
of original frame. A 2-bays hall originally. (RCHM Typescript).
Listing NGR: TL1798124716
Legacy
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Legacy System number: 162883
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