Moor Cottage
MOOR COTTAGE, POTTEN END HILL
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1173712
- Date first listed:
- 26-Jan-1967
- List Entry Name:
- Moor Cottage
- Statutory Address:
- MOOR COTTAGE, POTTEN END HILL
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1173712
- Date first listed:
- 26-Jan-1967
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 19-Mar-1987
- List Entry Name:
- Moor Cottage
- Statutory Address 1:
- MOOR COTTAGE, POTTEN END HILL
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:
- MOOR COTTAGE, POTTEN END HILL
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 03935 10244
Details
GREAT GADDESDEN POTTEN END HILL TL 0310 (South side) Water End 10/121 Moor Cottage 26.1.67 (Formerly listed as Moor Cottage, Water End)
GV II*
House. Late C15 or early C16 cruck framed open hall house, hipped W rear wing, floor in hall, front gable and chimney later C17, windows altered and brick infill early C18, small lean-to extensions at rear 1960s. Timber frame on red brick sill, red brick infill, steep old red tile roofs. A 1 1/2-storeys T-plan house facing E. 3-windows E front has flush casement windows, panelled door to left of RH window marking the position of the former cross-passage. Large gable to left of door has jettied top over 4-light leaded casement lighting the chamber over the hall which has similar 4-light window below. 2-light window to S end parlour with later external gable chimney. Large cruck truss exposed in N gable end (formerly half-hipped as shown in Buckler dwg of 1838 in HRO). 3-light casements to each floor. Interior of considerable interest for extent the original form and details can be reconstructed. 3 cruck-framed bays originally open to the roof except N bay which has cross-passage and service rooms axially divided and original floor of flat joists carried on axial beam. Stair probably on W wall. Closed truss between passage and hall open below cross-beam. Peg-holes for bench and bench-end at S (upper) end of hall, with evidence for large casement window originally on E side. 4 pairs of cruck blades, each terminating just above the collar beam (Type W in N Alcock (ed) Cruck Construction; an introduction and catalogue (1981)). Unusual use of side-chimney when hall floored in C17. (RCHM Typescript).
Listing NGR: TL0393510244
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 157900
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Alcock, N W, Council for British Archaeology Research Report in Cruck Construction An Introduction And Catalogue, (1981)
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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