Layston Cottage and Number 3A
LAYSTON COTTAGE AND NUMBER 3A, 3 3A, RIVER GREEN
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1295711
- Date first listed:
- 22-Feb-1964
- List Entry Name:
- Layston Cottage and Number 3A
- Statutory Address:
- LAYSTON COTTAGE AND NUMBER 3A, 3 3A, RIVER GREEN
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1295711
- Date first listed:
- 22-Feb-1964
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 06-Jul-1984
- List Entry Name:
- Layston Cottage and Number 3A
- Statutory Address 1:
- LAYSTON COTTAGE AND NUMBER 3A, 3 3A, RIVER GREEN
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:
- LAYSTON COTTAGE AND NUMBER 3A, 3 3A, RIVER GREEN
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Hertfordshire
- District:
- East Hertfordshire (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Buntingford
- National Grid Reference:
- TL3640029627
Details
TL 3629
7/81
BUNTINGFORD
RIVER GREEN (east side)
No 3 (Layston Cottage), and No 3A
(formerly listed as Layston Cottage No 3 and No 3A)
22.2.64
GV
II
House, now 2 houses. Early C16 hall house with 2 crosswings, C17
and C18 N range, C19 single-storey gabled front extension and
general renovation. Timber frames roughcast with diaper
pargetting to jettied middle range. Steep old red tile roofs.
Flint and slate gabled front wing with red brick dressings. An
irregular 2 storeys and attics building facing W with the N
crosswing and the later N parts separated as No 3A. Parlour wing
at S, entrance into through-passage at N end of hall behind
inserted central chimney. Central chimney in N range with rear
stair in angle with N crosswing. W front has gabled wings.
Gabled dormer to centre, front jetty to hall with bull-
nosed joists, underbuilt jetty to projecting N crosswing, canted
tiled bay window to S crosswing, C19 wood casements to upper
floor, triple-sash window with small panes to hall and 4-panel
raised-and-fielded door. Interior has clasped-purlin roofs,
exposed timbers, and a 2-light diamond mullioned wondow with
shutter groove at head of stairs in No 3. (RCHM Typescript).
Listing NGR: TL3640029627
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 159811
- 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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