Forresters Cottage
14, 16 AND 18, HIGH STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1174915
- Date first listed:
- 27-May-1968
- List Entry Name:
- Forresters Cottage
- Statutory Address:
- 14, 16 AND 18, HIGH STREET
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1174915
- Date first listed:
- 27-May-1968
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 19-Nov-1984
- List Entry Name:
- Forresters Cottage
- Statutory Address 1:
- 14, 16 AND 18, HIGH STREET
- Statutory Address 2:
- FORRESTERS COTTAGE, 1,2 AND 3, HIGH STREET
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:
- 14, 16 AND 18, HIGH STREET
- Statutory Address:
- FORRESTERS COTTAGE, 1,2 AND 3, HIGH STREET
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Hertfordshire
- District:
- North Hertfordshire (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Ashwell
- National Grid Reference:
- TL2688039714
Details
TL 2639 ASHWELL HIGH STREET
(North side)
Ashwell
8/14 Nos 14,16 and 18
27.5.68 (1,2 and 3
Forresters Cottage)
(formerly listed as
Forresters Cottages)
GV II*
A picturesque group of houses dating from the late C15 and early C16.
Restored 1960s. Timber frame, partly exposed. Plain tile roofs. 2
storeys. The left part (2 and 3 Forresters Cottages) is a late C15 hall
house with jettied cross wings. The E part (No. 1) was built in early
C16 as 2 storey house jettied on front. 2 storeys. 7 recent glazing bar
casements. 3 doors with C16 moulded 4-centred frames. Nos. 2 and 3 are 4
windows. 2 gabled attics in centre. Upper floors of cross wings have
bull-nose joists and curved brackets. Close wide studs exposed on ground
floor of wings and fullheight'Ln centre. No. 1 has studs exposed on
ground floor and a deep jetty carried on curved brackets. C17 stack
inserted next to right cross wing. Restored C17-18 stack on E end. (RCHM
Typescript).
Listing NGR: TL2688039714
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 162145
- 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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