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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Overview
- 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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- 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
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:
- LEA COTTAGE (NUMBER 36) INCLUDING WEATHERBOARD LEAN TO TO EAST OF NUMBER 36, 36 AND 38, WEST STREET
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- 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
GV II
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
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 461565
- 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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