Dove Cottage
DOVE COTTAGE, THE STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1173689
- Date first listed:
- 06-Jul-1984
- List Entry Name:
- Dove Cottage
- Statutory Address:
- DOVE COTTAGE, THE STREET
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1173689
- Date first listed:
- 06-Jul-1984
- List Entry Name:
- Dove Cottage
- Statutory Address 1:
- DOVE COTTAGE, THE 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:
- DOVE COTTAGE, THE STREET
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Hertfordshire
- District:
- East Hertfordshire (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Aspenden
- National Grid Reference:
- TL 36028 28247
Details
TL 32NE ASPENDEN THE STREET (north side)
4/7 Dove Cottage
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GV II
House. Early C18, extended at ends and divided as 2 houses in early C19. Timber frame on stucco plinth, roughcast with basketwork and fan pargetting and black weatherboarded apron. Steep thatched roof. A one and a half storeys, 2-cell, central chimney plan house facing S, later extended symmetrically by one bay at each end with an external gable chimney. Back-to-back dog leg stairs behind central chimney and brick oven (blocked) out of N jamb of E fireplace of central stack. Floor levels higher on ground and 1st floor of end extensions. 2 battened doors together in middle flanked by 2 2-light small-paned, cast-iron, Yorkshire sliding casement windows all linked by a drip board on shaped brackets. 2 dormer windows at eaves grouped in middle. Axial chamfered beams and open fireplaces to old middle part of house. Good early C19 cast-iron basket grates to E end fireplace.
Listing NGR: TL3602828247
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 159717
- 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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