Clock Cottage, and Stable Cottage at Brickendon Bury

CLOCK COTTAGE, AND STABLE COTTAGE AT BRICKENDON BURY, BRICKENDON LANE

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Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1177010
Date first listed:
24-Nov-1966
List Entry Name:
Clock Cottage, and Stable Cottage at Brickendon Bury
Statutory Address:
CLOCK COTTAGE, AND STABLE COTTAGE AT BRICKENDON BURY, BRICKENDON LANE

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1177010
Date first listed:
24-Nov-1966
Date of most recent amendment:
20-Apr-1988
List Entry Name:
Clock Cottage, and Stable Cottage at Brickendon Bury
Statutory Address 1:
CLOCK COTTAGE, AND STABLE COTTAGE AT BRICKENDON BURY, BRICKENDON LANE

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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.

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Corrections and minor amendments

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.

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Location

Statutory Address:
CLOCK COTTAGE, AND STABLE COTTAGE AT BRICKENDON BURY, BRICKENDON LANE

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 32978 10482

Details

TL 31 SW BRICKENDON LIBERTY BRICKENDON LANE (East side)

1/38 Clock Cottage, and Stable 24.11.66 Cottage at Brickendon Bury (formerly listed as Stable Buildings)

GV II

Stable block, now 2 houses. '1894 G & S P' on side of armorial panel, for George Pearson. Converted after 1971. Red brick with blue brick plinth offset and window sills, moulded sandstone entrance archway and armorial panel on RH buttress. Half-timbered black-and-white first floor and recessed top of tower. Steep red tile roofs and black painted bargeboards with pendants. An irregular L-shaped block fronting the main drive, facing S, with twin gables and canted small bay windows to lower, 1½-storeys LH part (Stable Cottage). Next this a 4-storeys tower with cross-roof, the ground floor a tunnel vaulted carriageway with tall pointed stone entrance arch between projecting brick buttresses. Semi-circular rear arch to yard. Large segmental-pedimented clock bracketed out from upper part of front, below balustraded balcony and above 4-lights leaded mullioned window over the arch. Polygonal stair turret projects on E side of tower topped by open timber stage with bell and tile and lead cap roof with enlarged knob to finial. 2-storeys corner house attached (Clock Cottage) has projecting gable next corner with bracketed oriel window over canted bay window 4-bays casements with small panes. Large projecting chimney on E gable end with expanded base. Carriageway and yard of stable paviors.

Listing NGR: TL3297810482

Legacy

The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.

Legacy System number:
160645
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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