Numbers 1, 3 (Forge Cottage) And 5 (Rosemary Cottage)
NUMBERS 1, 3 (FORGE COTTAGE) AND 5 (ROSEMARY COTTAGE), 1, 3 AND 5, CHURCH LANE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1347353
- Date first listed:
- 27-May-1968
- List Entry Name:
- Numbers 1, 3 (Forge Cottage) And 5 (Rosemary Cottage)
- Statutory Address:
- NUMBERS 1, 3 (FORGE COTTAGE) AND 5 (ROSEMARY COTTAGE), 1, 3 AND 5, CHURCH LANE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1347353
- Date first listed:
- 27-May-1968
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 03-Jun-1987
- List Entry Name:
- Numbers 1, 3 (Forge Cottage) And 5 (Rosemary Cottage)
- Statutory Address 1:
- NUMBERS 1, 3 (FORGE COTTAGE) AND 5 (ROSEMARY COTTAGE), 1, 3 AND 5, CHURCH LANE
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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:
- NUMBERS 1, 3 (FORGE COTTAGE) AND 5 (ROSEMARY COTTAGE), 1, 3 AND 5, CHURCH LANE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Hertfordshire
- District:
- North Hertfordshire (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Barkway
- National Grid Reference:
- TL 38412 35622
Details
BARKWAY CHURCH LANE TL 3835 (South side) Barkway
9/6 Nos. 1, 3 (Forge Cottage) 27.5.68 and 5 (Rosemary Cottage) (formerly listed as No. 7, the Old Smithy and Old Forge Cottage)
GV II
Row of 3 dwellings incorporating former smithy. Late C18 or early C19. Timber frame, weatherboarded with some rendering. Tiled roof with decorative fishscale bands and crest tiles. Irregularly spaced 5 window front. 2 storeys. Ground floor: plinth, 3 entrances, 2 to left vertically panelled, that to right recessed, 4 horizontal sliding sashes, one of 3 lights, and a fixed casement, all with hoodboards. First floor: a horizontal sliding sash and C20 2 and 3 light casements. Ridge stack at right end, stacks to front and rear slopes all with oversailing caps. Right end rendered with a small ground floor slate roofed outshut, first floor horizontal sliding sash, half hip to roof. Interior not inspected. Part of No. I is in the building described as No. 68 High Street (q.v.).
Listing NGR: TL3841235622
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 162460
- 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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