Brownings Cottage
BROWNINGS COTTAGE, BROWNINGS LANE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1176133
- Date first listed:
- 08-Feb-1988
- List Entry Name:
- Brownings Cottage
- Statutory Address:
- BROWNINGS COTTAGE, BROWNINGS LANE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1176133
- Date first listed:
- 08-Feb-1988
- List Entry Name:
- Brownings Cottage
- Statutory Address 1:
- BROWNINGS COTTAGE, BROWNINGS LANE
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:
- BROWNINGS COTTAGE, BROWNINGS LANE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Hertfordshire
- District:
- North Hertfordshire (District Authority)
- Parish:
- King's Walden
- National Grid Reference:
- TL1474022316
Details
TL 12 SW
3/1
KINGS WALDEN
BROWNINGS LANE
(East side)
Breachwood Green
Brownings Cottage
II
House. C17, S end early C19, C20 porch on W side. Timber frame
roughcast, S end plastered and lined as ashlar. Steep old red tile roof,
lower pitched, lower roof to S end. A tall 2-storeys and attics,
3-cells, internal chimney plan house facing W, with lower 2-storeys
single-cell S extension. Irregular W front with 3 2-lights casement
windows to 1st floor and ground floor, large hipped porch at S end of
older part of house, attic window between purlin-ends of roof at S gable
of higher part. The large internal chimney a third from S end of
original house has the stumps of 3 diagonally set square shafts joined
under a later cap. Small external N gable chimney.
Listing NGR: TL1474022316
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 162793
- 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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