Elm Cottage
14, BURY END
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1295369
- Date first listed:
- 24-Oct-1988
- List Entry Name:
- Elm Cottage
- Statutory Address:
- 14, BURY END
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1295369
- Date first listed:
- 24-Oct-1988
- List Entry Name:
- Elm Cottage
- Statutory Address 1:
- 14, BURY END
- Statutory Address 2:
- ELM COTTAGE, 12, BURY END
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:
- 14, BURY END
- Statutory Address:
- ELM COTTAGE, 12, BURY END
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Hertfordshire
- District:
- North Hertfordshire (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Pirton
- National Grid Reference:
- TL 14672 31482
Details
PIRTON BURY END TL 1431 (South side)
7/143 Nos. 12 (Elm Cottage), - and 14
- II
House, now 2 houses. C16, with earlier crosswing, floor and chimney inserted in C17, divided in C19. Timber frame on stuccoed plinth, roughcast with steep pitched old red tile roofs, now of red tiles at front. A large T-plan house facing N with taller 2-storeys crosswing at W. Large internal chimney a third from E end and projecting chimney on W side of wing (rebuilt). N front has 4 windows to each floor. 2-lights flush casement windows. 4-centred, hollow-chamfered, broad doorway at LH end of front. Gabled porch to ground floor of crosswing. Single-storey C20 garage linked to N end, and 2-storeys S extension c.1985. Hall range consists of 2 bays at S and a longer hall bay next the crosswing which is a separate older structure. Interior has exposed frame, swept jowls to posts, chamfered cambered tie beam on curved braces. Curved tension braces in walls. Edge-halved scarf joint in wallplate with bridled butts. Close studded front wall. Clasped-purlin roof with curved wind-braces. Shutter grooves under wallplate for mullioned windows. Collar and vertical struts in end trusses. When the central brick chimney was built in the 2nd bay from E the tie-beam of the truss immediately to E was cut away and a rougher one introduced further to W hard against the stack.
Listing NGR: TL1467231482
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 163153
- 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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