BIRDS NEST FARM COTTAGE

BIRDS NEST FARM COTTAGE, MILL END

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1176537
Date first listed:: 29-Jan-1986
List Entry Name:: BIRDS NEST FARM COTTAGE
Statutory Address:: BIRDS NEST FARM COTTAGE, MILL END

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1176537
Date first listed:: 29-Jan-1986
List Entry Name:: BIRDS NEST FARM COTTAGE
Statutory Address 1:: BIRDS NEST FARM COTTAGE, MILL END

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.

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This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

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.

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Location

Statutory Address:: BIRDS NEST FARM COTTAGE, MILL END

The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.

County:: Hertfordshire
District:: North Hertfordshire (District Authority)
Parish:: Sandon
National Grid Reference:: TL 33074 32822

Details

SANDON MILL END TL 33 SW (West side) 7/71 Birds Nest Farm Cottage GV II House. Late C16 or early C17, altered and extended C20. Timber frame, rendered. Machine tiled roof. Originally 2 bays with cross wing to right to form a T on plan. 2 storeys. C20 2 storey and attic cross wing added to left. Plinth. Entrance in hall with a ground floor C20 leaded pane flush frame casement window. A first floor 2 light casement at left end of hall. Projecting gable fronted cross wings, to left 3 light casements, a single light in attic, to right 2 light casements, cusped bargeboards. Early wing to right is lower with a broader gable. Axial ridge stack at right end of hall with 4 diagonally set flues, rebuilt. Left end C20 external stack with offsets. Right end has a recessed 9 pane fixed window, a 4 light casement inserted between studs towards rear. To rear some exposed studs in a 2 light casement, a gabled dormer in hall. C20 cross wing extends further with first floor projecting, cusped bargeboards.

Listing NGR: TL3307432822

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Legacy System number:: 162394
Legacy System:: LBS

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This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.