LEA COTTAGE (NUMBER 36) INCLUDING WEATHERBOARD LEAN TO TO EAST OF NUMBER 36

LEA COTTAGE (NUMBER 36) INCLUDING WEATHERBOARD LEAN TO TO EAST OF NUMBER 36, 36 AND 38, WEST STREET

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1268680
Date first listed:: 12-Apr-1973
List Entry Name:: LEA COTTAGE (NUMBER 36) INCLUDING WEATHERBOARD LEAN TO TO EAST OF NUMBER 36
Statutory Address:: LEA COTTAGE (NUMBER 36) INCLUDING WEATHERBOARD LEAN TO TO EAST OF NUMBER 36, 36 AND 38, WEST STREET

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1268680
Date first listed:: 12-Apr-1973
List Entry Name:: LEA COTTAGE (NUMBER 36) INCLUDING WEATHERBOARD LEAN TO TO EAST OF NUMBER 36
Statutory Address 1:: LEA COTTAGE (NUMBER 36) INCLUDING WEATHERBOARD LEAN TO TO EAST OF NUMBER 36, 36 AND 38, WEST STREET

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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:: LEA COTTAGE (NUMBER 36) INCLUDING WEATHERBOARD LEAN TO TO EAST OF NUMBER 36, 36 AND 38, WEST STREET

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County:: Hertfordshire
District:: East Hertfordshire (District Authority)
Parish:: Hertford
National Grid Reference:: TL 32292 12291

Details

HERTFORD

TL3212SW WEST STREET 817-1/19/256 (North side) 12/04/73 Nos.36 AND 38 Lea Cottage (No.36) including weatherboarded lean-to to east of No.36

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House, now subdivided into two dwellings. Late C17 altered and extended C18, C19 and C20. Timber-framed and plastered, No.36 has faint masonry lining, black weatherboarding to rear lean-to of No.38. Old tiled roof, hipped at left (west) end of No.38, red brick chimneystack of four clustered square shafts separated by recesses. Corbelled back corners to central square shaft with projecting band, 4 cream terracotta pots. Rear outshut to No.38 has Welsh slated lean-to roof, Welsh slated outshut at rear of No.36, pantiled roof to single storey lean-to on right (east). EXTERIOR: 2 storeys and attics; former lobby entry plan when single house, with door (now removed) against major stack which now forms party wall between the two properties. Front facade has scattered fenestration; first floor has 2 slightly recessed 9-pane sash windows, with architrave surrounds, set hard under eaves at left; 1 similar window in centre set lower down (all No.38), and at right (No.36) 1 triple-light wood casement window with divided glazing. Ground floor has 1 C19 sash with divided 6-pane glazing, and projecting architrave surround and moulded cornice hood raised on consoles, with canted oriel bay window to right with 3 sashes 4:12:4 pane (all No.38). Far right (No.36) has 1 triple-light wood casement, and a 4-panel door, recessed in architrave surround, with a floating cornice hood. Rear of No.38 has a 2-storey lean-to; first floor with C19 canted oriel bay with triple sashes at left, and 2 flush-set 9-pane sash windows, centre and right. Ground floor much altered with C20 lean-to conservatory. INTERIOR: No.36 has ground floor room with a beam with chamfer and tongue stop; much renewed elsewhere. No.38 has a similar beam in the ground floor right-hand (east) room, with red brick fireplace with arched timber bressumer, and to right a frame with a boarded ledged door in situ, but now blocked behind indicating the original lobby entry arrangement. The stair is central, rising alongside exposed C17 studwork with carpenters' marks - this was possibly originally the west wall. The west rooms have C19 features.

The attics indicate that the roof was raised C19, with an earlier 'A' frame with collar against the central stack. Cellar to No.38 has a brick floor and red brick walls.

Listing NGR: TL3229212291

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This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.