Wood Way and Chartist Cottage
WOOD WAY AND CHARTIST COTTAGE, NOTTINGHAM ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1296082
- Date first listed:
- 27-Jul-1972
- List Entry Name:
- Wood Way and Chartist Cottage
- Statutory Address:
- WOOD WAY AND CHARTIST COTTAGE, NOTTINGHAM ROAD
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1296082
- Date first listed:
- 27-Jul-1972
- List Entry Name:
- Wood Way and Chartist Cottage
- Statutory Address 1:
- WOOD WAY AND CHARTIST COTTAGE, NOTTINGHAM ROAD
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:
- WOOD WAY AND CHARTIST COTTAGE, NOTTINGHAM ROAD
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Hertfordshire
- District:
- Three Rivers (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Non Civil Parish
- National Grid Reference:
- TQ 02742 94057
Details
TQ 09 SW RICKMANSWORTH NOTTINGHAM ROAD (Southwest side) Heronsgate
8/207 Wood Way and 27.7.72 Chartist Cottage
GV II
Pair of semi-detached houses. 1846-7 for Chartist Co-operative Land Company. Stuccoed and roughcast brick. Welsh slate roofs. 2 storeys, 1:2:1, 3 gables to front, an arrangement not found in other Chartist settlements. A rebated strip separates slightly projecting centre bays. Ground floor bay window additions. First floor 2 light casements. 2 storey projection added to left wing. Leaded light casements to right wing. Central and right gables with rectangular panels with sides extended downwards, a sign used throughout O'Connorville. Bargeboards. Plinth. Entrances on returns, 2 bays with casements, right end stack. Axial ridge stack to centre, stack on left ridge. Interior not inspected. Amongst the best surviving examples of the houses of O'Connorville founded by Feargus O'Connor, Chartist leader, as the first settlement under his Land Plan, an important aftermath of Chartism and precursor of Garden Cities. A school and 35 cottages were built, each with 2 to 4 acres of land. (Hertfordshire Past and Present, no.7, p,19, 1967: Pevsner 1977)
Listing NGR: TQ0274294057
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 158851
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Pevsner, N, Cherry, B, The Buildings of England: Hertfordshire, (1977)
Hertfordshire Past and Present in Hertfordshire Past and Present, (1967)
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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