Brook Cottage Post Office
BROOK COTTAGE, 13, HIGH STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1176494
- Date first listed:
- 19-Sept-1984
- List Entry Name:
- Brook Cottage Post Office
- Statutory Address:
- BROOK COTTAGE, 13, HIGH STREET
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1176494
- Date first listed:
- 19-Sept-1984
- List Entry Name:
- Brook Cottage Post Office
- Statutory Address 1:
- BROOK COTTAGE, 13, HIGH STREET
- Statutory Address 2:
- POST OFFICE, 11, 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:
- BROOK COTTAGE, 13, HIGH STREET
- Statutory Address:
- POST OFFICE, 11, HIGH STREET
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Hertfordshire
- District:
- East Hertfordshire (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Hunsdon
- National Grid Reference:
- TL 41656 14073
Details
TL 4114 HUNSDON HIGH STREET (west side) Hunsdon village
7/17 Nos 11 (Post Office) - and 13 (Brook Cottage)
GV II
Block of 2 houses. Mid C19 (but not on Tithe Map of 1842 (HRO)). A tall roughcast, 2 storeys, H-plan block of 2 estate houses facing E. (Modern single storey shop side extension to No 11 not of special interest.) Steep old red tile gabled roofs with heavy cusped bargeboards to the 2 projecting gables. Roof of the short centre part extended down as an open porch. A large gabled central dormer is shared and has similar cusped bargeboards. 2 large cruciform central chimneys in red brick. Door and small window in centre part. 3-light small paned casement windows. Rectangular bay window on Ground floor of No 11 with tiled lean- to roof. Arched braces to open porch. an interesting pair of picturesque mid C19 estate houses. Part of the balanced group about Nos 5 and 7 at the beginning of the Conservation Area.
Listing NGR: TL4165614073
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 159978
- 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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