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