Sawford Cottage
SAWFORD COTTAGE, 12, GREAT GREEN
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1347111
- Date first listed:
- 24-Oct-1988
- List Entry Name:
- Sawford Cottage
- Statutory Address:
- SAWFORD COTTAGE, 12, GREAT GREEN
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1347111
- Date first listed:
- 24-Oct-1988
- List Entry Name:
- Sawford Cottage
- Statutory Address 1:
- SAWFORD COTTAGE, 12, GREAT GREEN
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:
- SAWFORD COTTAGE, 12, GREAT GREEN
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Hertfordshire
- District:
- North Hertfordshire (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Pirton
- National Grid Reference:
- TL 14473 31560
Details
PIRTON GREAT GREEN TL 1431 (West side)
7/151 No. 12 - (Sawford Cottage)
GV II
House and stable, now one house. Early C17, floor inserted and chimney in late C17, outer walls renewed in brick when house divided in C19, renovated in C20. Timber frame on brick sill, cased and in house largely replaced in red brick now painted or roughcast. Steep old red tile roof, half hipped at E. A 3-cells, internal-chimney, lobby-entry plan house facing S with its E gable on the old building line facing the green, and a one-bay former stable attached to its W end. Formerly single-storey throughout, floor has been inserted with a large internal chimney to heat the middle room and the chamber over. C19 external E gable chimney added later. S front has 4 flush casement windows, central gabled porch, and 4 gabled dormers at the eaves. Separate door into W end. Timber frame of one-bay former stable complete with jowled-posts, curved braces to cambered tie-beams, inclined straight queen-posts, and clasped-purlin roof-structure. In house tie-beams cut for doorways, straight braces to tie-beams, long straight wind-braces, clasped-purlin roof, and E gable truss exposed with collar, and peg-holes for studding of lower walling now replaced by brick. Axial beams roughly chamfered. Large open fireplace on ground floor with lintel and narrow bricks in half-arch to carry hearth of chamber fireplace over. Face-halved bladed scarf joint in front wallplate.
Listing NGR: TL1447331560
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 163161
- 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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