Pound Cottage
POUND COTTAGE, THE COMMON
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1296120
- Date first listed:
- 02-Dec-1986
- List Entry Name:
- Pound Cottage
- Statutory Address:
- POUND COTTAGE, THE COMMON
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1296120
- Date first listed:
- 02-Dec-1986
- List Entry Name:
- Pound Cottage
- Statutory Address 1:
- POUND COTTAGE, THE COMMON
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:
- POUND COTTAGE, THE COMMON
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Hertfordshire
- District:
- Dacorum (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Kings Langley
- National Grid Reference:
- TL 07052 02945
Details
KINGS LANGLEY THE COMMON TL 0702 (East side) 13/129 Pound Cottage -
GV II
House. Circa 1600, floor inseted and brick cased in C18, brick rear extension c.1974. Timber frame on brick sill, white weatherboarded at N and, brick cased on W and S with tilehung S gable. Steep old red tile roofs. A 1½ storeys house facing W with 2 gabled plastered dormers at the eaves. 3 2-light flush casement windows under segmental arches. Entrance now in extension. The pound keeper's cottage, at one time a 'charity cottage' for the poor of the parish.
Listing NGR: TL0705202945
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 157659
- 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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