Lovatts Cottage
LOVATTS COTTAGE, CLEMENTS END ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1172990
- Date first listed:
- 26-Jan-1967
- List Entry Name:
- Lovatts Cottage
- Statutory Address:
- LOVATTS COTTAGE, CLEMENTS END ROAD
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- Date:
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- Reference:
- IOE01/01102/29
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1172990
- Date first listed:
- 26-Jan-1967
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 19-Mar-1987
- List Entry Name:
- Lovatts Cottage
- Statutory Address 1:
- LOVATTS COTTAGE, CLEMENTS END 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:
- LOVATTS COTTAGE, CLEMENTS END ROAD
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Hertfordshire
- District:
- Dacorum (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Great Gaddesden
- National Grid Reference:
- TL 03816 13965
Details
GREAT GADDESDEN CLEMENTS END ROAD TL 01 SW (West side) Ballingdon Bottom
3/72 Lovatts Cottage 26.1.67 (formerly listed as Ballingdon Farm Cottages, Gaddesden Row, the West block)
GV II
House. Early C16, open hall house, floored in c.1550-1575, brick internal chimney late C17, alterations in early C19 for cottages, and renovated c.1968. Timber frame infilled with red brick, steep old red tile roof. A 2-storeys house of 4 structural bays facing N. Front has 4 casement windows on each floor, and large internal chimney near middle of house. Flush casement windows renewed. Middle 2 bays built as hall open to roof, end bays always of 2 storeys. Lack of smoke blackening in roofs indicates a former timber framed chimney. W bay had pantry, buttery and staircase. Parlour in E bay with stair in anteroom. Beaded joists in floor inserted in hall and wall paintings in hall and parlour point to C16 date. Those on E wall of hall were of 3/4 female figures flanking or forming part of fantastic columns in classical Renaissance form. Panelled texts in English to parlour. (Pevsner (1977)151: RCHM Typescript).
Listing NGR: TL0381613965
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 157853
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Pevsner, N, Cherry, B, The Buildings of England: Hertfordshire, (1977), 151
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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