Orchard Cottage
ORCHARD COTTAGE, 7, HIGH STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1347112
- Date first listed:
- 24-Oct-1988
- List Entry Name:
- Orchard Cottage
- Statutory Address:
- ORCHARD COTTAGE, 7, HIGH STREET
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1347112
- Date first listed:
- 24-Oct-1988
- List Entry Name:
- Orchard Cottage
- Statutory Address 1:
- ORCHARD COTTAGE, 7, 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:
- ORCHARD COTTAGE, 7, 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:
- Pirton
- National Grid Reference:
- TL 14541 31997
Details
PIRTON HIGH STREET TL 1431 (North side)
7/157 No. 7 - (Orchard Cottage)
- II
House. Circa 1600, E extension c.1980. Timber frame, roughcast, with steep pitched roof formerly thatched now slated. A 2-storeys and attic, 2-cells, internal chimney, lobby-entry plan house facing S with contemporary lean-to rear outshut, and 2-storeys E extension in matching finishes. S front has 3 3-lights flush casement windows to each floor, gabled porch opposite large chimney, and another to E extension next E corner. Interior has exposed timbers with jowled posts, unjowled mid-bay posts, clasped-purlin roof on straight inclined queen-posts, edge-halved scarf joints, long thin straight tension braces, chamfered axial floor beams with ogee stops and roughly squared joists. W room more important with Jacobean scrolled bracket supporting W end of floor beam, principal fireplace with pointed arched recesses in back, and winding stair to S of stack. Moulded plank door on 1st floor.
Listing NGR: TL1454131997
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 163167
- 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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