Filmer Cottage
Filmer Cottage, Cautherly Lane, Great Amwell, Ware, SG12 9SN
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1341821
- Date first listed:
- 30-Sept-1983
- List Entry Name:
- Filmer Cottage
- Statutory Address:
- Filmer Cottage, Cautherly Lane, Great Amwell, Ware, SG12 9SN
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1341821
- Date first listed:
- 30-Sept-1983
- List Entry Name:
- Filmer Cottage
- Statutory Address 1:
- Filmer Cottage, Cautherly Lane, Great Amwell, Ware, SG12 9SN
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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:
- Filmer Cottage, Cautherly Lane, Great Amwell, Ware, SG12 9SN
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Hertfordshire
- District:
- East Hertfordshire (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Great Amwell
- National Grid Reference:
- TL 37114 12506
Details
This list entry was subject to a Minor Amendment on 09/06/2020
TL 3712
12/12
GREAT AMWELL
CAUTHERLY LANE
Filmer Cottage
(Formerly listed as Filmer Cottage opposite George II PH, ST JOHNS LANE (south side) Great Amwell village)
GV
II
House. 1711 'restored' 1887 by R.W Mylne. Timber frame exposed between colourwashed plaster panels, decorative red tile hanging to upper part. Steep old red tiled roof, half-hipped at south and carved round a two-storeys polygonal bay window at the south west corner. A one and a half storeys two windows house with central gabled porch and gabled dormers over three-light windows rising above the eaves with half-timbered gables. Very massive red brick north gable chimney with several diamond chimney shafts. Smaller central chimney. Four-panel moulded door central. In raised plaster on south gable 'SF 1711' and 'Restored 1887 RWM.'
Susan Filmer was joint heiress to Amwell Manor in succession to Thomas Filmer who died in 1701 (VCH (1912) 417).
A most picturesque historic house at the centre of the Conservation Area. Part of a group with the George IV Public House and The Homestead.
Listing NGR: TL3711412506
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 355874
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Doubleday, A, The Victoria History of the County of Hertford, (1912), 417
Other
Register of Parks and Gardens of Special Historic Interest in England, Part 21 Hertfordshire,
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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