Bees Nest Cottage
Bees Nest Cottage, North Common Road
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1102904
- Date first listed:
- 09-Aug-1974
- List Entry Name:
- Bees Nest Cottage
- Statutory Address:
- Bees Nest Cottage, North Common Road
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1102904
- Date first listed:
- 09-Aug-1974
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 27-Sept-1984
- List Entry Name:
- Bees Nest Cottage
- Statutory Address 1:
- Bees Nest Cottage, North Common 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:
- Bees Nest Cottage, North Common Road
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Hertfordshire
- District:
- St. Albans (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Redbourn
- National Grid Reference:
- TL 10227 12094
Details
This list entry was subject to a Minor Amendment on 18 April 2024 to correct a typo in the description and to reformat the text to current standards
TL 1012
15/231
REDBOURN
REDBOURN
NORTH COMMON ROAD (north west side)
Bees Nest Cottage
(Formerly listed under North Common)
9.8.74
GV
II
House, built as a cottage terrace of five tenements in early or mid C17. Exposed timber frame. C17-19 red brick infill. Plain tile roof. Three red brick ridge chimney stacks with joined square shafts. One storey and attics. Three gabled casement dormers. At right end is a small gabled cross wing, possibly a slightly later addition. Six recent leaded casements to ground floor. Modern central porch and rear North extension. Interior with exposed chamfered floor beams throughout.
Listing NGR: TL1022712094
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 163772
- 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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