GROVE COTTAGE

GROVE COTTAGE, 39, PORT HILL

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Overview

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1268772
Date first listed:: 09-Sep-1996
List Entry Name:: GROVE COTTAGE
Statutory Address:: GROVE COTTAGE, 39, PORT HILL

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1268772
Date first listed:: 09-Sep-1996
List Entry Name:: GROVE COTTAGE
Statutory Address 1:: GROVE COTTAGE, 39, PORT HILL

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:: GROVE COTTAGE, 39, PORT HILL

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 32255 13022

Details

HERTFORD

TL3213SW PORT HILL, Bengeo 817-1/15/278 (West side) No.39 Grove Cottage

GV II

Formerly 2 staff cottages to The Grove, Port Vale (qv), now single house. Early/mid C19 with late C19 and C20 alterations. Yellow stock brick, Flemish bond, hipped Welsh slated double roof with brick corbel band and dentil cornice, central pediment on south, central yellow brick chimneystacks with band and oversailing caps, and tapered square yellow terracotta pots. EXTERIOR: 2 storeys, east elevation faces road and has 3 recessed 12-pane sash windows beneath rubbed brick segmental arches on first floor. Ground floor with 2 similar windows and porch left of centre with brick sides with semicircular headed sidelights, triple upper light, egg-and-dart profiled fascia, and concave lead canopy roof. Recessed half-glazed door with 4-pane upper light, and lower panel with bolection surround. Recessed rear porch with half-glazed kitchen door and sash window at right. South elevation of 3 bays, centre breaking slightly forward with brick pediment gable, with, left and right on first floor, single recessed 12-pane sash under rubbed brick flat arch, and on ground floor canted bay windows, that on right with 4:16:4-pane sashes, that on left adapted to incorporate French windows with margin glazing, and margin glazed top light, both windows having lead flat roofs with coved moulded cornices. INTERIOR: much altered with 2 cottages adapted as single dwelling late C19/early C20. Front left-hand room has C19 cast-iron fire surround with paterae, hall has reset C18 wood cornice, and china cabinets with glazed doors, each side of former fireplace, staircase with stick balusters and moulded hardwood rail, with late C19 lower flight with Jacobean style newels. Rear dining room has reset C18 style panelling and wood cornice. Cellar has brick floor and walls, with curved walls containing former twin stairs from original 2 dwellings.

Listing NGR: TL3225513022

Legacy

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

Legacy System number:: 461445
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.