Plum Tree Cottage
PLUM TREE COTTAGE, 8 AND 9
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1295793
- Date first listed:
- 02-Dec-1986
- List Entry Name:
- Plum Tree Cottage
- Statutory Address:
- PLUM TREE COTTAGE, 8 AND 9
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1295793
- Date first listed:
- 02-Dec-1986
- List Entry Name:
- Plum Tree Cottage
- Statutory Address 1:
- PLUM TREE COTTAGE, 8 AND 9
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:
- PLUM TREE COTTAGE, 8 AND 9
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Hertfordshire
- District:
- Dacorum (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Little Gaddesden
- National Grid Reference:
- TL 00432 13282
Details
LITTLE GADDESDEN HUDNALL TL 01 SW (North side) 2/180 No. 8 (Plum Tree - Cottage) and No. 9
- II
House, now 2 houses. Mid C16, rear brick wings mid C19, S end of No. 8 and S porch 1970s. Timber frame exposed on 1st floor infilled with yellow brick. Red brick ground floor and rear parts. Steep old red tile roofs. A 2-storeys and cellar, 3 bays, 3 windows, E side jettied building now entered from S, extended to rear and one bay to S and with single-storey T-shaped block of outbuildings linked on W. Gabled S porch. C19 windows on E, each side of door, of 2 lights with chamfered and stopped mullions of unusually correct design for the time. Yellow stock brick infill between timbers above red brick of ground floor. Multangular central red brick chimney with moulded cap and base. Hall in N part (No. 9) reached by passage to rear of chimney with old rear door into rear wing. On S side of passage beam with mortices for partition and door, gap just beyond central axial beam itself with partition mortices. Clasped purlin-roof with curved wind braces and evidence for partitions corresponding to those on ground floor. Paired brackets under jetty mark entrance. Fine mid C16 floor beams moulded with rolls and hollows. (RCHM Typescript).
Listing NGR: TL0043213282
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 157711
- 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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