The Folly
THE FOLLY
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1296419
- Date first listed:
- 26-Nov-1985
- List Entry Name:
- The Folly
- Statutory Address:
- THE FOLLY
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- Reference:
- IOE01/01930/28
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1296419
- Date first listed:
- 26-Nov-1985
- List Entry Name:
- The Folly
- Statutory Address 1:
- THE FOLLY
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:
- THE FOLLY
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 04160 01099
Details
CHIPPERFIELD THE COMMON TL 0401 (South side) 12/73 The Folly 26.11.85
- II
House. Late C17, C19 brick front, rear lean-to and division to 2 houses, S bay C20. Timber frame on stuccoed sill, roughcast with red brick front and steep old red tile roof, with slated 2-storeys part rear lean-to. A 2-cells, 2 storeys and attic, end chimneys plan house facing E, with matching added S part. Its plot was probably an encroachment on the common. Large external N gable chimney with one flue and enlarged base. Before the S extension with a casement window to each floor the front was symmetrical with a flush casement 3-light window on each side of the porch on each floor. Twin 2-panel flush doors in single ornate lean-to tiled porch with brackets and glazed arcading. Early C20 rectangular wooden bay window inserted to RH of porch. Casements to attic and small windows in N gable end facing common.
Listing NGR: TL0416001099
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 157600
- 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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