Shepherds Cottage
SHEPHERDS COTTAGE, 8 AND 9, ST MARGARET'S
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1173745
- Date first listed:
- 30-Nov-1966
- List Entry Name:
- Shepherds Cottage
- Statutory Address:
- SHEPHERDS COTTAGE, 8 AND 9, ST MARGARET'S
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1173745
- Date first listed:
- 30-Nov-1966
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 19-Mar-1987
- List Entry Name:
- Shepherds Cottage
- Statutory Address 1:
- SHEPHERDS COTTAGE, 8 AND 9, ST MARGARET'S
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:
- SHEPHERDS COTTAGE, 8 AND 9, ST MARGARET'S
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 02230 11321
Details
GREAT GADDESDEN ST. MARGARET'S TL 01 SW (West side) 3/127 Nos. 8, and 9 30.11.66 (Shepherds Cottage) (formerly listed as No 8 St Margaret's, No 9 St Margaret's (also called Shepherds Cottage in Nettleden GV with Potten End parish)
II
House, now 2. First half of C16 2-bays house (one an open hall), late C16 jettied E part (No. 9), later C17 W end part and large chimney with floor in hall and stair beside stack. Timber frame with red brick infill and steep red tiled roofs half-hipped at W end. A long 2-storeys block facing N with E part slightly higher. No. 8 has irregular fenestration with 3 windows to each floor and gabled porch to door on E side of central windows. Flush sliding Yorkshire casements with lattice leaded glazing. Small stair window in line with internal stack one third from W end. No. 9 has continuous side-jetty, one 4-light window to each floor and 3-light window over baffle entrance beside large chimney near E end. Medieval middle part has heavy timbers, heavy flat joists to the storeyed E bay, reverse-curved braces to upper part of front wall, original framed partition with curved tension brace (concealed from hall.), swept-jowled posts, and clasped purlin roof structure with wind-braces. Timbers of large scantling, squarish in section. Poor plain joists in floor over hall but well finished chamfered joists with run-out stops to W end extension. (RCHM Typescript).
Listing NGR: TL0223011321
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 157906
- 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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