Copthall
COPTHALL, THE STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1296391
- Date first listed:
- 26-Jan-1967
- List Entry Name:
- Copthall
- Statutory Address:
- COPTHALL, THE STREET
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1296391
- Date first listed:
- 26-Jan-1967
- List Entry Name:
- Copthall
- Statutory Address 1:
- COPTHALL, THE STREET
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:
- COPTHALL, THE STREET
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Hertfordshire
- District:
- Dacorum (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Chipperfield
- National Grid Reference:
- TL 04379 01689
Details
CHIPPERFIELD THE STREET TL (East side) 12/83 Copthall 26.1.67
GV II
House. C16, W end late C17, divided in C18, SE wing c.1913 in place of a large bakehouse. Timber frame with narrow red brick infill, ground floor cased or rebuilt in red brick, plastered on S. Steep old red tile roofs. Roughcast SE wing. A long L-shaped 2-storeys house facing N with W gable on roadside and entrance door into 1½ storeys SE wing with 2 gabled dormers, 3-light casement window and Tudor-arched battened door on LH. E bay a parlour formerly jettied to N. 1½ bays W part has thinner timbers, unjowled posts, straight braces, 1½ storeys, large external S-side chimney with tiled offsets, brick gable to road with purlin ends and tile-creasing over tie-beam, 2-light casement upper window and 2-light and 4-light casements to ground floor. This wing probably replaces an earlier service wing and adjoining cross-passage. S front has wide-spaced studs and storey-height panels. Straight braces in walls at corners. 2-light casement to 1st floor: double flush sash window to ground floor. N side has exposed frame with convex curved corner brace and wide-spaced studs. C18 2-light flush leaded casement to 1st floor central room. Sun fire insurance plaque no. 364473. Interior has axial floor beams, and remains of Jacobean carved panelling with guilloche band. Queen-struts and collar trusses in clasped-purlin roof formerly cross-roofed at parlour bay. Long splayed scarf joint in purlin, and old flat rafters. Added bay at E, beyond parlour.
Listing NGR: TL0437901689
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 157610
- 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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