Bentleys Cottage
BENTLEYS COTTAGE, 5, BRICKENDON GREEN
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1176904
- Date first listed:
- 24-Nov-1966
- List Entry Name:
- Bentleys Cottage
- Statutory Address:
- BENTLEYS COTTAGE, 5, BRICKENDON GREEN
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- Date:
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- Reference:
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1176904
- Date first listed:
- 24-Nov-1966
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 20-Apr-1988
- List Entry Name:
- Bentleys Cottage
- Statutory Address 1:
- BENTLEYS COTTAGE, 5, BRICKENDON GREEN
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:
- BENTLEYS COTTAGE, 5, BRICKENDON GREEN
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Hertfordshire
- District:
- East Hertfordshire (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Brickendon Liberty
- National Grid Reference:
- TL 32253 07860
Details
TL 30 NW BRICKENDON LIBERTY BRICKENDON GREEN (East side)
3/36 No. 5 24.11.66 (Bentleys Cottage) (formerly listed as No. 1, and No. 2)
GV II
House. C15 or earlier S crosswing, hall range early/mid C17, N bay probably C19, renovated after stripping to frame 1973. Timber frame on low black painted sill, roughcast with frame exposed in older parts. Steep old red tile roofs, S wing hipped. 2-storeys house, facing W, set back on large plot next village green. Projecting 2-storeys jettied W crosswing has catslide W outshut, set back, and front gable altered to hip. Convex curved tension braces and central window on 1st floor, and straight tension brace to ground floor. Higher 2-storeys hall range has central chimney and framing in 2 bays with very narrow central chimney bay in which ground floor 2-light window replaces former lobby-entrance doorway. Stair to rear of stack. 2 windows to each floor. Flush 2-lights casements. Single bay N extension with matching window to each floor. Boarded door now gives entrance into S wing. Round-headed recess in each face of large square chimney stack. Interior has exposed timbers with 2 3-lights original diamond mullioned windows and shutter grooves in S wing, arched braces, cambered tie-beams, collar rafter roof. Axial beams carry floors of hall range, and upper room has a 4-centred arched brick chamfered open fireplace. Windows with ovolo-moulded mullions remain. S wing has edge-halved scarf joints with bridled butts in wallplate. (RCHM Typescript).
Listing NGR: TL3225307860
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 160643
- 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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