Old Church Cottage

OLD CHURCH COTTAGE, CHAPEL LANE

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Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1343661
Date first listed:
29-May-1986
List Entry Name:
Old Church Cottage
Statutory Address:
OLD CHURCH COTTAGE, CHAPEL LANE
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Official list entry

Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1343661
Date first listed:
29-May-1986
List Entry Name:
Old Church Cottage
Statutory Address 1:
OLD CHURCH COTTAGE, CHAPEL 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.

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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.

Understanding list entries

Corrections and minor amendments

Location

Statutory Address:
OLD CHURCH COTTAGE, CHAPEL LANE

The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.

County:
Hertfordshire
District:
Dacorum (District Authority)
Parish:
Tring Rural
National Grid Reference:
SP 89449 15638

Details

TRING RURAL CHAPEL LANE SP 8915 (North side) Long Marston 8/119 Old Church Cottage - GV II House. C16, early C19 E extension. Timber frame with painted brick-on-edge infill, W end has painted brick ground floor and tilehung gable. Steep thatched roof with scalloped ridge. E extension in painted brick with white weatherboarding to 1st floor. Slate pitched roof. Lean- to painted brick garage at E end with lean-to tiled roof. A 2-storeys, 3-bays crosswing of a house presumably formerly extending to N. W end has underbuilt jetty with jowled supporting post exposed in S wall. Taller 2-storeys E extension faces S. Crosswing has internal chimney emerging in N roofslope, and 2 windows to each floor. Flush casement windows with small panes 4-light and 5-light to ground floor. Eyebrow dormer at eaves. E extension has one window to each floor and 6-panel door on left with flat moulded hood on shaped brackets. Recessed 2-light Yorkshire sliding casements on ground floor with segmental arch and small panes. Internal gable chimney on E. Low extensions on N.

Listing NGR: SP8944915638

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Legacy System number:
355755
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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