Bull Cottages
BULL COTTAGES, 6 AND 8, CHURCH STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1168043
- Date first listed:
- 02-Dec-1986
- List Entry Name:
- Bull Cottages
- Statutory Address:
- BULL COTTAGES, 6 AND 8, CHURCH STREET
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1168043
- Date first listed:
- 02-Dec-1986
- List Entry Name:
- Bull Cottages
- Statutory Address 1:
- BULL COTTAGES, 6 AND 8, CHURCH 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.
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:
- BULL COTTAGES, 6 AND 8, CHURCH STREET
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Hertfordshire
- District:
- Dacorum (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Bovingdon
- National Grid Reference:
- TL 01695 03594
Details
BOVINGDON CHURCH STREET TL 0103 (East side) 10/21 Nos. 6, and 8 - (Bull Cottages)
GV II
House, now 2 houses. Early C16 base-cruck hall house with S crosswing, chimney and floor inserted late C16/C17, gothicised in C19. Timber frame roughcast but E gable of crosswing painted brick nogging to exposed frame in upper part. Steep old red tile roofs.A 1½ storeys hall range facing N, with 2 storeys service crosswing and gabled dormer to No. 8 3-light cast iron lattice casements on W with W side outshut under a catslide roof. 4 windows, 2-bays 2 doors hall with central base-cruck open truss, single-bay parlour on E may have extended a further bay to E originally. Cross-passage marked by 2 service doors into crosswing at W end of hall. Chimney C18 replacing later C16 smoke bay and re-using elaborately moulded lintel. Winding stair, chimney and former baffle entrance against central truss in lower bay of hall (No. 6). Floor inserted in hall on axial beams, at different height from E bay. Conventional box-frame construction with jowled posts and clasped-purlin roof with curved wind braces (some double curved of early C16 date). Angled knee to base crucks rising to a collar with straight braces from crucks and long wind braces each side. Collar carries clasped purlins supporting rafters. Interior shows clearly the structure of a former open hall house with base-cruck open truss to 2-bay hall. (Roberts (1975)No.18: RCHM Typescript).
Listing NGR: TL0169503594
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 157548
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Roberts, E, The Bovingdon Survey, ()
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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