Chequers Cottages, Numbers 1 to 6 Inclusive and 3 Linked Rear Outhouses
CHEQUERS COTTAGES, NUMBERS 1 TO 6 INCLUSIVE AND 3 LINKED REAR OUTHOUSES, 1-6, CHEQUERS LANE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1176623
- Date first listed:
- 14-Jan-1977
- List Entry Name:
- Chequers Cottages, Numbers 1 to 6 Inclusive and 3 Linked Rear Outhouses
- Statutory Address:
- CHEQUERS COTTAGES, NUMBERS 1 TO 6 INCLUSIVE AND 3 LINKED REAR OUTHOUSES, 1-6, CHEQUERS LANE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1176623
- Date first listed:
- 14-Jan-1977
- List Entry Name:
- Chequers Cottages, Numbers 1 to 6 Inclusive and 3 Linked Rear Outhouses
- Statutory Address 1:
- CHEQUERS COTTAGES, NUMBERS 1 TO 6 INCLUSIVE AND 3 LINKED REAR OUTHOUSES, 1-6, CHEQUERS 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:
- CHEQUERS COTTAGES, NUMBERS 1 TO 6 INCLUSIVE AND 3 LINKED REAR OUTHOUSES, 1-6, CHEQUERS LANE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Hertfordshire
- District:
- North Hertfordshire (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Preston
- National Grid Reference:
- TL 17933 24906
Details
TL 1724 PRESTON CHEQUERS LANE (West side)
8/79 Chequers Cottages 14.1.77 Nos. 1-6 inclusive, and 3 linked rear outhouses
II
Block of estate cottages and 3 rear outhouses. 1913 by E.L. Lutyens for H.G. Fenwick. Dark red narrow brick in Flemish garden-wall bond with some blue bricks. Light red brick dressings and arches. Tilehanging to 1st floor and the steep pitched roofs in handmade red tiles. A tall 2-storeys block facing E symmetrical about a brick barrel-vaulted central passage and with a projecting gabled crosswing at each end and hipped-roofed lower projections at ends and rear. 3 hip-roofed single-storey, brick outhouses symmetrically disposed at rear with round arched openings to central passage in middle one on central axis of block. E front has irregular disposition of openings mirrored in each half, and 6 fat square chimneys along the ridge each with clasping corner pilasters and waisted cap typical of Lutyens work in the area. A large rectangular chimney with 2 square shafts linked by a recessed panel projects at outer side of each crosswing. The roofs have bellcast eaves and swept tiled valleys. 6 vertically moulded plank doors in heavy wooden frames. 4 6-lights flush wooden casement windows to 1st floor under the eaves and with small panes. These light the staircase landing. 2-light similar window over door to end houses, which also have the crosswings. Ground floor has, each side of centre, a 4-lights flush casement window, a door, a pair of small leaded larder windows with brick mullion and tile lintel and drip, a door, a pair of larder windows, a 2-light flush casement window, and the door of the end house. Central round-headed gauged arch to passage, has recessed spandrels, red dressings to jambs, and a 2-lights hipped dormer window rising through the eaves above. Each projecting crosswing gable has a 4-light flush casement window central to the 1st floor, and a 4-lights and 1-light casement window on the ground floor round the outer corner.
Listing NGR: TL1793324906
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 162871
- 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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