DOVECOTE AT LANGLEY END COTTAGE

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1176549
Date first listed:: 08-Feb-1988
List Entry Name:: DOVECOTE AT LANGLEY END COTTAGE
Statutory Address:: DOVECOTE AT LANGLEY END COTTAGE

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1176549
Date first listed:: 08-Feb-1988
List Entry Name:: DOVECOTE AT LANGLEY END COTTAGE
Statutory Address 1:: DOVECOTE AT LANGLEY END COTTAGE

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:: DOVECOTE AT LANGLEY END COTTAGE

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

County:: Hertfordshire
District:: North Hertfordshire (District Authority)
Parish:: Langley
National Grid Reference:: TL 19850 23944

Details

TL 12 SE LANGLEY LANGLEY END

4/62 Dovecote at Langley End Cottage

GV II

Dovecote, now a garden building. C17, C18 brick infill, C19 floor inserted when turned into a cottage. Timber frame on high red brick plinth, red brick infill panels, steep old red tile pyramidal roof. A tall 2-storeys square structure on the edge of a bank at the middle of the former farmyard now entered from N by a door next the RH corner post with a small window above and another to the left. The frame has corner-posts, middle post on each side, a cross-rail at half the height of the timber framed part, and close-spaced studs. There are blocked segmental arched openings low down in the plinth on the E side as if for cross-ventilation below. Below the eaves on this side is an alighting shelf and pidgeon holes, the inserted floor is carried on a beam running N-S. Heavy horizontal convex-curved braces between wallplates at corners. Simple rafter roof with centre-posts carrying external knob. A building retained by Lutyens in his scheme for Hill End (now Langley End).

Listing NGR: TL1985023944

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The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.

Legacy System number:: 162854
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.