The Cottage, Amersfort on North Side of Forecourt
THE COTTAGE, AMERSFORT ON NORTH SIDE OF FORECOURT, THE COMMON
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1174226
- Date first listed:
- 19-Mar-1987
- List Entry Name:
- The Cottage, Amersfort on North Side of Forecourt
- Statutory Address:
- THE COTTAGE, AMERSFORT ON NORTH SIDE OF FORECOURT, THE COMMON
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1174226
- Date first listed:
- 19-Mar-1987
- List Entry Name:
- The Cottage, Amersfort on North Side of Forecourt
- Statutory Address 1:
- THE COTTAGE, AMERSFORT ON NORTH SIDE OF FORECOURT, THE COMMON
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:
- THE COTTAGE, AMERSFORT ON NORTH SIDE OF FORECOURT, THE COMMON
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Hertfordshire
- District:
- Dacorum (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Nettleden with Potten End
- National Grid Reference:
- TL 00997 08630
Details
TL 00 NW NETTLEDEN WITH THE COMMON POTTEN END (South side) Potten End
5/195 The Cottage, Amersfort, - on N side of forecourt
GV II
Lodge now Gardener's cottage. Circa 1911 by Ernest Willmott for W.S. Cohen, to complement the main house, q.v. Narrow plum brick in English garden wall bond with lighter red dressings, plinth and rusticated corners. Deep plaster eaves cove to tall very steep hipped roof of red tiles. A small symmetrical house of one storey and attic facing S. Front has 2 2-light oak-framed small-paned casement windows under flat gauged arches of tiles or very narrow bricks. Bold rectangular central chimney with rebated angles. Single hipped dormer central in front roof slope. Central half-glazed panelled door up 2 semi-circular steps has moulded oak surround with cyma frieze to entablature. (Ernest Willmott RIBA English House Design Batsford, London (1911) plates 8 and 9).
Listing NGR: TL0099708630
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 157974
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Willmott, E, English House Design, (1911)
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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