Laburnam Cottage

LABURNAM COTTAGE, WEST STREET

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Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1103199
Date first listed:
20-Aug-1975
List Entry Name:
Laburnam Cottage
Statutory Address:
LABURNAM COTTAGE, WEST STREET
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Official list entry

Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1103199
Date first listed:
20-Aug-1975
List Entry Name:
Laburnam Cottage
Statutory Address 1:
LABURNAM COTTAGE, WEST 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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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:
LABURNAM COTTAGE, WEST STREET

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

County:
Hertfordshire
District:
North Hertfordshire (District Authority)
Parish:
Lilley
National Grid Reference:
TL 11722 26582

Details

LILLEY WEST STREET TL 1126 (East side)

11/72 Laburnam Cottage 20.8.75 - II

House. Late C17, enlarged in C19 and 1980s. Timber frame on brick sill exposed on N end and E front with red brick infill, red brick casing to S part and red brick C20 rear wing. Steep thatched roofs with decorative ridge. A 1 1/2-storeys T-shaped house facing E with S gable to West Street. E front has framing of 3 unequal bays with staggered mid-height rail. Gabled dormer, 2-light casement windows, rectangular oriel to right. N gable has jowled posts and straight tension braces to sill. Clasped-purlin roof on collar. Timber framed rear outshut. 2-light casement window in gable. S gable in brick with segmental arches to 2 2-light windows and plaque of lion rampant for Sowerby Estate. Deep boarding bargeboards to thatch. Entrance in S side of new rear wing. (RCHM Typescript).

Listing NGR: TL1172226582

Legacy

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

Legacy System number:
163082
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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