Thatched Cottage
THATCHED COTTAGE, MOLES LANE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1307644
- Date first listed:
- 13-Dec-1984
- List Entry Name:
- Thatched Cottage
- Statutory Address:
- THATCHED COTTAGE, MOLES LANE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1307644
- Date first listed:
- 13-Dec-1984
- List Entry Name:
- Thatched Cottage
- Statutory Address 1:
- THATCHED COTTAGE, MOLES LANE
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:
- THATCHED COTTAGE, MOLES LANE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Hertfordshire
- District:
- East Hertfordshire (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Wyddial
- National Grid Reference:
- TL 37336 31177
Details
TL 3731 WYDDIAL MOLES LANE (East side)
10/142 Thatched Cottage -
- II
House. C16, floored over in stages in C17, C18 and C19, divided in C19 with S part a shop, restored c.1983. Timber frame on plastered brick sill, roughcast with steep half-hipped thatched roof. A 1½ storeys, 3 cells, internal-chimney, lobby-entry plan house facing W, with later single-storey rear wing with hipped tile roof. Entrance and main chimney a third from S end, C19 internal chimney a third from N end. Front has 3 2-light flush casement windows, a half-glazed flush-beaded panelled door in a glazed porch, 2 tall swept dormers with c19 2-light casements, and ridges of roof higher between the 2 chimneys. Interior has jowled posts, curved tension brace to S end wall visible on SW stair, and an edge-halved scarf joint with bridled butts in the rear wallplate. Stud and plaster pyramidial face of main chimney on upper floor may be old timber chimney. C17 chamfered and stopped joists and axial beam to S half of hall. C18 squared joists and axial beam of higher level in N half of hall. Floor on rough split poles to N end unheated service rooms. Unheated parlour at S end. Framing of lower swept dormers remains in front slope. Exposed wall framing. Formerly called Orchard Cottage.
Listing NGR: TL3733631177
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 160363
- 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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