The Fighting Cocks Public House
THE FIGHTING COCKS PUBLIC HOUSE, ABBEY MILL LANE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1347100
- Date first listed:
- 08-May-1950
- List Entry Name:
- The Fighting Cocks Public House
- Statutory Address:
- THE FIGHTING COCKS PUBLIC HOUSE, ABBEY MILL LANE
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- Reference:
- IOE01/05194/06
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1347100
- Date first listed:
- 08-May-1950
- List Entry Name:
- The Fighting Cocks Public House
- Statutory Address 1:
- THE FIGHTING COCKS PUBLIC HOUSE, ABBEY MILL 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.
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:
- THE FIGHTING COCKS PUBLIC HOUSE, ABBEY MILL LANE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Hertfordshire
- District:
- St. Albans (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Non Civil Parish
- National Grid Reference:
- TL 14217 06879
Details
1. 1582 ABBEY MILL LANE (North-East Side) ----------------- The Fighting Cocks Public House TL 1406 NW 13/117 8.5.50.
II
2. Octagonal, 2-storey timber framed building of C16 appearance, with high pitched, pointed tiled roof. Plaster filling. Very heavy timbers, rather widely spaced, with tension braces. 1st floor windows 2-light casements, some with broad glazing bars, in flush, box frames. 2 similar, grond floor windows. Various extensions: Contemporary 2-storey North West extension, gabled, with high pitched, tiled roof, and weather-boarded ground floor on North East side. Tall, square, tapered, external chimney to North East. One-storey pent extension to South West, weatherboarded, under steep, tiled roof with visible rafter ends; with stepped rectangular, external chimney at South West corner. Later, pent extensions of 1 and 2 storeys under slated roofs, to East and West. Later, beamed ceiling and open fireplace to main, ground floor room.
Listing NGR: TL1421706879
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 163215
- 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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