Greenside Cottage
GREENSIDE COTTAGE, WELL HEAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1176936
- Date first listed:
- 27-May-1968
- List Entry Name:
- Greenside Cottage
- Statutory Address:
- GREENSIDE COTTAGE, WELL HEAD
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1176936
- Date first listed:
- 27-May-1968
- List Entry Name:
- Greenside Cottage
- Statutory Address 1:
- GREENSIDE COTTAGE, WELL HEAD
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:
- GREENSIDE COTTAGE, WELL HEAD
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Hertfordshire
- District:
- North Hertfordshire (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Therfield
- National Grid Reference:
- TL 33462 37203
Details
THERFIELD WELL HEAD TL 3337 (South side) Therfield 9/130 Greenside Cottage 27.5.68 GV II House, at one time 2 dwellings. Mid to late C16. Timber frame on brick base, rendered and weatherboarded. Thatched roof. Double ended hall house. 3 bay lobby entry hall range. 1 storey and attic. 2 storey cross wings. Entrance to right of centre with a single light casement immediately to left. Outer hall bays have ground floor 3 light small pane flush frame casements and 2 light dormers with weatherboarded gables in attic. Original cross axial red brick ridge stack with 3 octagonal shafts. Each cross wing has 3 light casements on ground floor, 2 light casements in weatherboarded first floors, jettied with curved brackets, cusped bargeboards. Second entrance to left. Right end weatherboarded with an external C19 stack. Left end: ground floor 3 light casement, first floor weatherboarded with a horizontal sliding sash. Wing to left projects further to rear with a hipped roof over weatherboarded ground floor, first floor horizontal sliding sash. Casements and dormers in hall range to rear. Right wing has a catslide roof over a projecting lean-to to rear with an entrance. (RCHM 1910).
Listing NGR: TL3346237203
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 162453
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Other
Inventory of the Historical Monuments of Hertfordshire, (1910)
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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