1, 2, 3, 4 AND 5 HORNBEAM COURT, (HOWARD COTTAGE, SEYMOUR COTTAGE, BOLEYN COTTAGE, ARAGON COTTAGE, CLEEVES COTTAGE)

1, 2, 3, 4 AND 5 HORNBEAM COURT, (HOWARD COTTAGE, SEYMOUR COTTAGE, BOLEYN COTTAGE, ARAGON COTTAGE, CLEEVES COTTAGE), ARCH ROAD

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1347443
Date first listed:: 29-May-1969
List Entry Name:: 1, 2, 3, 4 AND 5 HORNBEAM COURT, (HOWARD COTTAGE, SEYMOUR COTTAGE, BOLEYN COTTAGE, ARAGON COTTAGE, CLEEVES COTTAGE)
Statutory Address:: 1, 2, 3, 4 AND 5 HORNBEAM COURT, (HOWARD COTTAGE, SEYMOUR COTTAGE, BOLEYN COTTAGE, ARAGON COTTAGE, CLEEVES COTTAGE), ARCH ROAD

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1347443
Date first listed:: 29-May-1969
Date of most recent amendment:: 28-May-1987
List Entry Name:: 1, 2, 3, 4 AND 5 HORNBEAM COURT, (HOWARD COTTAGE, SEYMOUR COTTAGE, BOLEYN COTTAGE, ARAGON COTTAGE, CLEEVES COTTAGE)
Statutory Address 1:: 1, 2, 3, 4 AND 5 HORNBEAM COURT, (HOWARD COTTAGE, SEYMOUR COTTAGE, BOLEYN COTTAGE, ARAGON COTTAGE, CLEEVES COTTAGE), ARCH ROAD

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.

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This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

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.

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Location

Statutory Address:: 1, 2, 3, 4 AND 5 HORNBEAM COURT, (HOWARD COTTAGE, SEYMOUR COTTAGE, BOLEYN COTTAGE, ARAGON COTTAGE, CLEEVES COTTAGE), ARCH ROAD

The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.

County:: Hertfordshire
District:: North Hertfordshire (District Authority)
Parish:: Wymondley
National Grid Reference:: TL2128328413

Details

TL 2128 10/143 29.5.69

WYMONDLEY ARCH ROAD (West side) Great Wymondley Hornbeam Court, Nos. 1 (Howard Cottage), 2 (Seymour Cottage), 3 (Boleyn Cottage), 4 (Aragon Cottage), 5 (Cleeves Cottage) (formerly listed as Hornbeam Cottages Nos 1-6)

GV II

Block of 5 small houses. 1818 for William Wilshere, Lord of the Manor, built by Wellers of Hitchin for £200 (HRO). Renovated, re-thatched and rear extensions built 1974 for Herts Buildings Preservation Trust. Roughcast presumably on timber frame, stuccoed plinth, and steep thatched half-hipped roof with fancy ridge. Slate roof to rear lean-to. A row of 16-storeys cottages ornee on roadside facing E. 3 red brick chimneys to ridge and one to N gable. E front has 7 eyebrow 2-lights dormer windows at the eaves, 5 boarded doors in narrow frames with foresteps, and 10 flush 2-lights small casement windows each with an external boarded shutter folding down from the sill. 2 dormers at rear. (Pevsner (1977)154: inf Mr. Farris).

Listing NGR: TL2128328413

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Legacy System number:: 162755
Legacy System:: LBS

Sources

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Pevsner, N, Cherry, B, The Buildings of England: Hertfordshire, (1977), 154

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This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.