Chapel Cottage

CHAPEL COTTAGE

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Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1103250
Date first listed:
24-Oct-1988
List Entry Name:
Chapel Cottage
Statutory Address:
CHAPEL COTTAGE

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1103250
Date first listed:
24-Oct-1988
List Entry Name:
Chapel Cottage
Statutory Address 1:
CHAPEL COTTAGE

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:
CHAPEL COTTAGE

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

County:
Hertfordshire
District:
North Hertfordshire (District Authority)
Parish:
Hexton
National Grid Reference:
TL 10612 31233

Details

HEXTON HEXTON TL 1030 (East side)

8/3 Chapel Cottage - GV II

House. C16, divided before 1810, now empty awaiting renovation. Timber frame on low red brick sill, red brick infill covered over by lath and roughcast. N chimney of squared clunch. Steep old red tile roof. Slated C19 brick rear lean-to to N part. A former single-storey house of 2 bays and a N chimney-bay, facing W, with inserted floor and an added internal S gable brick chimney with stair in SE corner. Winding stair with C17 oak panelled door to winding stair at NW corner in recess by older open fireplace. Now of 1 1/2 storeys with 2 2-lights casement windows and a plank door on the left of each window. Gabled dormer on roofslope formerly to N half (now collapsed inwards), S gable window to S half. Interior has tiled floor, axial beams, clasped-purlin roof with curved wind-braces. Roof not smoke blackened. Tie-beam cut for doorway. (RCHM Typescript: inf Mrs. Ashley Cooper).

Listing NGR: TL1061231233

Legacy

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

Legacy System number:
163013
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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