Holly Tree Cottage

HOLLY TREE COTTAGE, HIGH STREET

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Overview

Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1102537
Date first listed:
28-May-1987
List Entry Name:
Holly Tree Cottage
Statutory Address:
HOLLY TREE COTTAGE, HIGH STREET

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1102537
Date first listed:
28-May-1987
List Entry Name:
Holly Tree Cottage
Statutory Address 1:
HOLLY TREE COTTAGE, HIGH STREET

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

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.

Understanding list entries

Corrections and minor amendments

Location

Statutory Address:
HOLLY TREE COTTAGE, HIGH STREET

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

County:
Hertfordshire
District:
North Hertfordshire (District Authority)
Parish:
St. Ippolyts
National Grid Reference:
TL 18765 27072

Details

ST IPPOLLITTS HIGH STREET TL 1827 (West side) Gosmore

8/35 Holly Tree Cottage - GV II

House. C17, C18 brick front on N, altered early C19. Timber frame plastered and lined as ashlar. Ground floor cased in plum brick with lighter red dressings and slate weathering to top. Timber framed dark weatherboarded outhouse on W. Steep pitched slate roofs. A 2-storeys and attics house facing N with E gable on roadside and single-storey outhouse on W end. 2-cells plan with rearwall chimney to E part and projecting W gable chimney. Chamfered plinth and 3-lights C19 casement window cut into C18 brickwork of ground floor at E end. N front has 2 windows to each floor, above one another. Flush box sash windows with moulded surround and 10/10 panes. Older 6-panels fielded door at LH end of front in heavy frame. Light red dressings and flat gauged arch. Similar dressings and arches to ground floor windows. Doorway c.1800 inserted between windows. Reeded surround and corner blocks, consoles, and flat moulded hood.

Listing NGR: TL1876527072

Legacy

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

Legacy System number:
162647
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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