Box Tree Cottage
BOX TREE COTTAGE, ARCH ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1175687
- Date first listed:
- 28-May-1987
- List Entry Name:
- Box Tree Cottage
- Statutory Address:
- BOX TREE COTTAGE, ARCH ROAD
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1175687
- Date first listed:
- 28-May-1987
- List Entry Name:
- Box Tree Cottage
- Statutory Address 1:
- BOX TREE COTTAGE, ARCH ROAD
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:
- BOX TREE COTTAGE, ARCH ROAD
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Hertfordshire
- District:
- North Hertfordshire (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Wymondley
- National Grid Reference:
- TL 21366 28627
Details
WYMONDLEY ARCH ROAD TL 2128 (East side) Great Wymondley
10/138 Box Tree Cottage - GV II
House. C15 former open hall house, late C17 alterations and floor inserted, altered C19. Timber frame on stucco sill, roughcast, some red brick to ground floor at N end. Steep pitched roof formerly thatched, now slated at front but old red tile at rear extending down over outshut. A 2-storeys, 3-cells plan house set back a little from road facing W. 4 structural bays with 2-bays hall, inserted chimney with fireplace at N end of hall, parlour at S with staircase and C17 large external S gable chimney. Service bay at N end with winding stair in NW corner and an C18 external N gable chimney. W front has 3 3-lights flush small casement windows to each floor, the upper ones cutting into deep plaster eaves cove. Continuous drip over ground floor windows and 4-panels flush beaded door into lower bay of hall. Interior has exposed frame with brick infill, curved corner tension braces cut into backs of studs, jowled posts, straight tension braces in 2 hall bays, clasped-purlin roof with curved wind-braces. Hall floor carried on cross-beam. Original axial joists of heavy section in service bay. Edge-halved scarf joints with bridled butts in wallplates.
Listing NGR: TL2136628627
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 162750
- 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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