May Cottage
May Cottage, 26, Sopwell Lane, AL1 1RR
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1103058
- Date first listed:
- 27-Aug-1971
- List Entry Name:
- May Cottage
- Statutory Address:
- May Cottage, 26, Sopwell Lane, AL1 1RR
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1103058
- Date first listed:
- 27-Aug-1971
- List Entry Name:
- May Cottage
- Statutory Address 1:
- May Cottage, 26, Sopwell Lane, AL1 1RR
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:
- May Cottage, 26, Sopwell Lane, AL1 1RR
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Hertfordshire
- District:
- St. Albans (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Non Civil Parish
- National Grid Reference:
- TL 14728 06867
Details
This list entry was subject to a Minor Amendment on 23 July 2025 to update the Name and Address and reformat the text to current standards
TL 1406 NE
14/112
SOPWELL LANE (South Side)
No 26
(May Cottage)
(Formerly listed as No 26 (Burleigh Cottage))
II
C16 timber framed building recently restored with used stock brick filling. Two storeys, two windows. High pitched, swept, tiled roof, continuing almost to ground level at rear. Tall, brick chimney stack. Close set studs on fist floor rest on exposed beam ends of overhanging upper floor, which is supported on three shouldered brackets. Wide set timbers with some horizontal rails on ground floor. Renewed casement windows.
New garage extension at left.
Listing NGR: TL1472806867
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 163443
- 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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