Swan Cottage
SWAN COTTAGE, 43, HIGH STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1347074
- Date first listed:
- 08-Feb-1988
- List Entry Name:
- Swan Cottage
- Statutory Address:
- SWAN COTTAGE, 43, HIGH STREET
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1347074
- Date first listed:
- 08-Feb-1988
- List Entry Name:
- Swan Cottage
- Statutory Address 1:
- SWAN COTTAGE, 43, HIGH STREET
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:
- SWAN COTTAGE, 43, HIGH STREET
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 18588 21057
Details
TL 1821 ST PAUL'S WALDEN HIGH STREET (South side) Whitwell
12/148 No. 43 (Swan Cottage)
GV II
House. C16, altered in C18, C20 low rear wing. Timber frame on low brick sill with plastered infill panels generally. Painted brick panels between bay-posts to ground floor at front. Painted brick rear wing. Dark weatherboarding to upper part of W gable end and to jettied gable triangle to front dormer. Steep old red tile roof, dormer slated. A wide-span 3-bays structure facing N with 1st floor windows under eaves in E bay but floor at higher level and 1st floor lit by a wide gabled dormer raised above the wallplate in the 2 other bays. Small swept dormer at eaves above door at E end of middle bay which also has an internal chimney built against its W end. Small later chimney at W side of E bay. Irregular N front with 3 small panes casement windows to 1st floor, 2-light casement to left of plank door with flat moulded hood on shaped brackets. Sash window with 3/3 panes to right of door and rectangular flat-topped oriel casement window to right of that. E gable shows clasped-purlin roof on cambered collar and cambered tie-beam truss. May have continued to W.
Listing NGR: TL1858821057
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 162940
- 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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