Farm Cottage
FARM COTTAGE, ST MARGARET'S
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1173765
- Date first listed:
- 20-Dec-1982
- List Entry Name:
- Farm Cottage
- Statutory Address:
- FARM COTTAGE, ST MARGARET'S
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1173765
- Date first listed:
- 20-Dec-1982
- List Entry Name:
- Farm Cottage
- Statutory Address 1:
- FARM COTTAGE, 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:
- FARM COTTAGE, 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 02269 11258
Details
GREAT GADDESDEN ST. MARGARET'S TL 01 SW (West side) 3/129 Farm Cottage 20.12.82 (formerly listed in Nettleden with Potten End parish)
GV II
House. Circa 1600, S part (possibly a byre) heightened when incorporated into house in C17 and floor inserted in hall. Timber framed with painted brick infill, at rear painted brick ground floor. Steep old red tile roofs. A 2-storeys 4-windows long house set back from road facing E with additional dormer windows lighting the upper floor, and single-storey lean-to extension at N end. Possibly a long-house derivative plan with 2-bays house of possibly storeyed N-bay and probably open hall in S bay with chimney projecting to S into formerly lower byre. E front of house-part has 2 large hipped dormers, 2 3-light small-paned Yorkshire sliding casements on 1st floor, and on ground floor a 3-light window, a modern gabled porch with plank door, and a single- and 2-lights window to right. Door into lean-to surrounding N external gable chimney. Similar dormer and casement window in each floor of LH wing. Wide-spaced storey-height framing with straight tension braces exposed at rear. Framing of floors and structure exposed inside. Clasped-purlin roof with windbracing. Chamfered and stopped axial floor beam and squared joists to N bay with stair in original position on rear wall. Chamfered and stopped joists and axial beam in hall, with carpenter's assembley marks. (RCHM Typescript).
Listing NGR: TL0226911258
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 157908
- 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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