130-136, PICCOTT'S END
130-136, PICCOTT'S END
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- I
- List Entry Number:
- 1342208
- Date first listed:
- 20-May-1954
- List Entry Name:
- 130-136, PICCOTT'S END
- Statutory Address:
- 130-136, PICCOTT'S END
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- I
- List Entry Number:
- 1342208
- Date first listed:
- 20-May-1954
- List Entry Name:
- 130-136, PICCOTT'S END
- Statutory Address 1:
- 130-136, PICCOTT'S END
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:
- 130-136, PICCOTT'S END
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Hertfordshire
- District:
- Dacorum (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Non Civil Parish
- National Grid Reference:
- TL 05137 09107
Details
PICCOTT'S END 1. 5252 (East Side) Nos 130 to 136 (even) [Formerly listed as Nos 67 to 70 (consec)] TL 0509 8/207 20.5.54.
I 2. C15 building, for many years a range of cottages. Timber frame, whitewashed plaster, red brick, old tiled roofs. 2 storeys, 5 gables, casement windows. Crown post roof of 3 trusses visible in No 132 which contains very important late C15 wall paintings, discovered March 1953, on north-west side wall. Religious themes, arranged like an ikonostasis, include Baptism, Christ in Majesty, Saints, etc. No 134 recorded as containing later C16 wall paintings. Plaque on front wall states that "In this Row of Cottages Sir Astley Cooper Bart, Surgeon to King George IV, Senior Surgeon at Guy's Hospital 1800 to 1825, opened the First Cottage Hospital January 1827." See Hertfordshire Archaeology, 3, pp 78-89.
Listing NGR: TL0513709107
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 355629
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Hertfordshire Archaeology in Hertfordshire Archaeology, Vol. 3, (1973), 78-89
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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