BENGEO HALL COTTAGE AND WEST YARD WALL

BENGEO HALL COTTAGE AND WEST YARD WALL, ST LEONARDS ROAD

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Overview

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1268713
Date first listed:: 10-Feb-1950
List Entry Name:: BENGEO HALL COTTAGE AND WEST YARD WALL
Statutory Address:: BENGEO HALL COTTAGE AND WEST YARD WALL, ST LEONARDS ROAD

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1268713
Date first listed:: 10-Feb-1950
Date of most recent amendment:: 09-Sep-1996
List Entry Name:: BENGEO HALL COTTAGE AND WEST YARD WALL
Statutory Address 1:: BENGEO HALL COTTAGE AND WEST YARD WALL, ST LEONARDS ROAD

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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This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

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:: BENGEO HALL COTTAGE AND WEST YARD WALL, ST LEONARDS ROAD

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 33003 13780

Details

HERTFORD

TL3313NE ST LEONARD'S ROAD, Bengeo 817-1/14/285 (East side) 10/02/50 Bengeo Hall Cottage and west yard wall (Formerly Listed as: BENGEO Bengeo Hall and Bengeo Hall Cottage)

GV II

Detached cottage approx 5m south of west wing of Bengeo Hall (qv). C18, with C20 alterations and extensions. Red brick, Flemish bond with gabled old tiled roof. EXTERIOR: 2 storeys, extended westwards late 1980s. West and south elevations have C20 sash windows beneath segmental brick arches with flat extrados; north elevation to rear yard has two C19 square recessed 9-pane sash windows at first floor. Ground floor with 3 doors, 2-panel, with elaborate Chinese Chippendale patterned upper panels, glazed behind, and flush lower panels, all set below segmental brick arches. INTERIOR: not inspected. SUBSIDIARY FEATURES: substantial 3m high red brick wall, Flemish bond, encloses service yard, and has attached C18 storage hutch with wood latticework and slated sides and twin 2-panel wood latticework doors. Wall returns around north of west wing, with gate piers, and slate roofed lean-to on east, with brick piers moulded stone caps and oak finials. Main west face of wall cement rendered with wires for vines; vinery now demolished. Cottage and wall form part of the setting of Bengeo Hall (qv).

Listing NGR: TL3300313780

Legacy

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

Legacy System number:: 461512
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.