Pipers Forge

PIPERS FORGE

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Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1295775
Date first listed:
30-Nov-1966
List Entry Name:
Pipers Forge
Statutory Address:
PIPERS FORGE
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Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1295775
Date first listed:
30-Nov-1966
List Entry Name:
Pipers Forge
Statutory Address 1:
PIPERS FORGE

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.

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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.

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Corrections and minor amendments

Location

Statutory Address:
PIPERS FORGE

The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.

County:
Hertfordshire
District:
Dacorum (District Authority)
Parish:
Nettleden with Potten End
National Grid Reference:
TL 01959 10541

Details

TL 01 SW NETTLEDEN WITH NETTLEDEN POTTEN END (North side)

3/212 Pipers Forge 30.11.66

GV II

House. C17, later C17 S wing, W crosswing rebuilt in C18 or later. Timber frame on brick sill (stuccoed on S wing), with red brick infill (some herringbone brickwork on S wing), brick casing to ground floor of main range and crosswing, and steep old red tile roofs. A 2-storeys and attics, T-shaped house facing S and set back a little from road. Main range lies E-W with large central chimney stack topped by complex polygonal conjoined shafts. 2-storeys S range projects from LH half of front. 4-lights leaded casement window to each floor of RH half. Entrance now into S end of S wing by door on E side with gabled timber porch. 2-lights casement window to RH of porch and 3-light similar window over. Lower 2-storeys W cross-wing has similar windows, large capped-off side-chimney projecting to W and small side-gable by chimney. Unjowled corner posts to cross-wing, but jowled posts elsewhere and framework of clasped-purlin roof supported on collar truss exposed in E gable of main range. Wide-spaced full storey-height studs.

Listing NGR: TL0196310542

Legacy

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

Legacy System number:
157993
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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