The Cottage
THE COTTAGE, HORMEAD DANE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1176733
- Date first listed:
- 22-Feb-1967
- List Entry Name:
- The Cottage
- Statutory Address:
- THE COTTAGE, HORMEAD DANE
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- Date:
- 2001-07-24
- Reference:
- IOE01/02892/33
- Rights:
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1176733
- Date first listed:
- 22-Feb-1967
- List Entry Name:
- The Cottage
- Statutory Address 1:
- THE COTTAGE, HORMEAD DANE
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:
- THE COTTAGE, HORMEAD DANE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Hertfordshire
- District:
- East Hertfordshire (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Hormead
- National Grid Reference:
- TL 39984 29905
Details
TL 3929 HORMEAD HORMEAD DANE (South side) Great Hormead
12/113 The Cottage 22.2.67
- II
House. C17 or early C18, remodelled as cottage ornée late C18 or early C19, W end room added after 1844. Timber frame plastered with steep thatched roof. 1 ½-storeys, 3-cells, internal chimney, lobby entry plan house, set back and facing N, with added W bay and projecting thatched porch a third from E end. 6 windows long with wallhead carried up for 3 hipped dormers. Gothic casement windows in triplets with shafts between, arched heads, segmental super-arches and louvred external shutters. Fine interior with octagonal entrance hall and coved niches at cardinal points, 6-panel doors with reeded surrounds to lower panels, fireplaces with corner blocks to moulded architraves. Buckler dwg. of 1844 shows similar arrangement without W room and with lean-to glazed conservatory to W of porch. Marked as Great Hormead Cottage on O.S.
Listing NGR: TL3998429905
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 160334
- 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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