Cockfosters
COCKFOSTERS, THE HOLT
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1307668
- Date first listed:
- 08-Feb-1988
- List Entry Name:
- Cockfosters
- Statutory Address:
- COCKFOSTERS, THE HOLT
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1307668
- Date first listed:
- 08-Feb-1988
- List Entry Name:
- Cockfosters
- Statutory Address 1:
- COCKFOSTERS, THE HOLT
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:
- COCKFOSTERS, THE HOLT
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Hertfordshire
- District:
- North Hertfordshire (District Authority)
- Parish:
- St. Paul's Walden
- National Grid Reference:
- TL 16859 19761
Details
TL 11 NE ST PAUL'S WALDEN THE HOLT (North side)
7/162 Cockfosters
II
House. N crosswing C16, hall range early C17, low rear extension C19. Timber frame, dark weatherboarded, flint and red brick casing to ground floor. Steep old red tile roofs. A small T-plan roofed 2-storeys house facing E, at rear of-small farmyard. Very large internal chimney with back-to-back open fireplaces at junction of the 2 parts with spacious lobby entrance beside stack with room for winding stair. 4-window long front with gabled N wing not projecting. 2-light casement to 1st floor. Moulded brick capping to flint casing to ground floor suggests a late C17 or early C18 date for this change. Half-glazed flush-beaded door flanked by 3-lights recessed casement windows. Interior has exposed frame with 2-bays N crosswing with ogee stops to chamfered beam, 3 arched recesses over lintel of fireplace, axial ovolo moulded beam without stops, squint-butted scarf joint, heavy inclined queen-posts to clasped-purlin roof. Hall-range has soot blackened re-used rafters, clasped-purlin roof without wind-braces, infilled cellar, chamfered axial floor beams with ogee stops to ground and 1st floors as if there originally were attics.
Listing NGR: TL1685919761
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 162954
- 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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