Spindle Cottage
SPINDLE COTTAGE, HITCHIN ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1176712
- Date first listed:
- 08-Feb-1988
- List Entry Name:
- Spindle Cottage
- Statutory Address:
- SPINDLE COTTAGE, HITCHIN ROAD
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1176712
- Date first listed:
- 08-Feb-1988
- List Entry Name:
- Spindle Cottage
- Statutory Address 1:
- SPINDLE COTTAGE, HITCHIN ROAD
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:
- SPINDLE COTTAGE, HITCHIN ROAD
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 18035 24910
Details
TL 1824 PRESTON HITCHIN ROAD (West side)
9/97 Spindle Cottage
GV II
House. 'IE 1717' in metal letters on front, S part C20 extension. Red brick in Flemish-bond, now painted. Steep old red tile roof. A 1½ storeys, 3-cells house facing E, with matching one cell S extension. E front has plinth, 4 windows with segmental arches, and 4 gabled dormers at the eaves. 2-light casement windows with leaded glazing to dormers. Similar to S window. 2 3-light similar windows to left of plank door. Canted oriel replaces window on right. Internal chimney near middle for kitchen, external N gable chimney for parlour. A 3-cells plan originally with entrance into large lobby with stair rising to left and service room partitioned off to rear. Partition below axial beam. S cell a kitchen greatly narrowed by the large internal chimney and fireplace with high plain lintel. Parlour at E with longitudinal beams in ceiling and moulded fire surround. Plain beams and squared joists. Run-out chamfers. Re-used timbers in roof, some smoke-blackened. No evidence that it was ever a single-storey house. (RCHM Typescript).
Listing NGR: TL1803524910
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 162889
- 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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