Shepherd's Cottage
SHEPHERD'S COTTAGE, 14/15, FRITHSDEN
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1174293
- Date first listed:
- 19-Mar-1987
- List Entry Name:
- Shepherd's Cottage
- Statutory Address:
- SHEPHERD'S COTTAGE, 14/15, FRITHSDEN
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1174293
- Date first listed:
- 19-Mar-1987
- List Entry Name:
- Shepherd's Cottage
- Statutory Address 1:
- SHEPHERD'S COTTAGE, 14/15, FRITHSDEN
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:
- SHEPHERD'S COTTAGE, 14/15, FRITHSDEN
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 01721 09874
Details
NETTLEDEN WITH FRITHSDEN TL 00 NW POTTEN END (East side) 5/200 Nos. 14/15 (Shepherd's Cottage) GV II House. Later C16 hall house, floored in mid C17, renovated and brick cased in C18, S and rear extensions mid C20. Timber frame exposed externally in N and S gables with red brick infill, red brick casing with some blue bricks, steep old red tile roofs with half-hip and gablet to S end of main roof, and half-hip to S extension. A 2-storeys, 4 windows long house facing W, with N end cut into hillside and a one- window single-storey extension running down the slope at S end. Brick front has dentilled eaves course and segmental arches to ground floor openings. Flush leaded casements with iron opening lights and 2- or 3-lights. Interior shows framework of a 3-bays house with full-height partitions to N and S of central hall, unheated N parlour up one step, entrance and present stair in S bay with an added rear-wall external chimney. Chamfered axial floor beam and plain squared joists to N bay may be original, but bar stops to axial chamfered floor beams in hall and S bay seem contemporary and rebated rib moulding to joists in hall date them to mid C17. Framework has swept jowls, edge-halved scarf joint in wallplate, straight braces to irregular tie-beams, clasped-purlin roof on cambered collars with straight wind braces. Large internal chimney at upper end of hall offset to rear possibly for an earlier lobby entrance and stair when floor inserted in hall.
Listing NGR: TL0172109874
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 157980
- 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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