Elsynge Cottage Elsynge House

ELSYNGE COTTAGE, FORTY HILL

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Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1189020
Date first listed:
19-Mar-1951
List Entry Name:
Elsynge Cottage Elsynge House
Statutory Address:
ELSYNGE COTTAGE, FORTY HILL
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Official list entry

Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1189020
Date first listed:
19-Mar-1951
Date of most recent amendment:
31-Jan-1974
List Entry Name:
Elsynge Cottage Elsynge House
Statutory Address 1:
ELSYNGE COTTAGE, FORTY HILL
Statutory Address 2:
ELSYNGE HOUSE, FORTY HILL

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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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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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Corrections and minor amendments

Location

Statutory Address:
ELSYNGE COTTAGE, FORTY HILL
Statutory Address:
ELSYNGE HOUSE, FORTY HILL

The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.

County:
Greater London Authority
District:
Enfield (London Borough)
Parish:
Non Civil Parish
National Grid Reference:
TQ 33841 98455

Details

1. 4411 FORTY HILL (East Side) Elsynge House and Elsynge Cottage (Formerly listed as Elsynge Cottage) TQ 3398 3/136 19.3.51.

II

2. Irregular house of several periods, unified by treatment of front, now as 2 dwellings. Elsynge House 2 storeys, basement and attic, 2 windows, probably of early C18. High pitched hipped roof, now slated, with one dormer. 2-storey right extension under gable, probably early C19. Elsynge Cottage, 2 storeys, 2 windows, perhaps of mid-late C18 (the period of the facade) but with slated mansard roof that looks later. Brown brick with parapet fronts. All 1st floor windows lengthened lunettes. All ground floor windows Venetian with fluted friezes, Open pedimented doorcase, with dentil cornice, to Elsynge House.

Listing NGR: TQ3384198455

Legacy

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

Legacy System number:
200617
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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