WHITBANK AND JENNY COTTAGE

WHITBANK AND JENNY COTTAGE, MAYDENCROFT LANE

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1347447
Date first listed:: 28-May-1987
List Entry Name:: WHITBANK AND JENNY COTTAGE
Statutory Address:: WHITBANK AND JENNY COTTAGE, MAYDENCROFT LANE

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Date:: 2001-07-05
Reference:: IOE01/04772/10
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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1347447
Date first listed:: 28-May-1987
List Entry Name:: WHITBANK AND JENNY COTTAGE
Statutory Address 1:: WHITBANK AND JENNY COTTAGE, MAYDENCROFT LANE

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:: WHITBANK AND JENNY COTTAGE, MAYDENCROFT LANE

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

County:: Hertfordshire
District:: North Hertfordshire (District Authority)
Parish:: St. Ippolyts
National Grid Reference:: TL 18629 27063

Details

ST IPPOLLITTS MAYDENCROFT LANE TL 1827 (South side) Gosmore

8/59 Whitbank and - Jenny Cottage

GV II

House, now 2 houses. C16 former open hall house with storeyed E crosswing, inserted floor and chimney in hall and W part rebuilt C17. Timber frame on stuccoed brick sill, frame exposed with plastered infill panels, W part roughcast. Steep old red tile roofs. A 2-storeys, T-plan building set back from road facing N with projecting E wing extended to E by a catslide roofed E outshut. Narrower, lower W part. Projecting gabled porch in angle with E wing and opposed door at rear mark cross-entry. Chimney shaft of large internal chimney rises to rear of roof ridge, with elongated cruciform shaft. Flush casement windows. Wide-panel framing to hall range. Prominent curved tension braces exposed in gables of cross-wing. Interior has jowled posts, cranked tension braces to hall partition, long straight tension braces to hall walls and curved wind-braces to clasped-purlin roof. Floor over hall carried on axial beam. (Pevsner (1977)148: RCHM Typescript).

Listing NGR: TL1862927063

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Legacy System number:: 162671
Legacy System:: LBS

Sources

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Pevsner, N, Cherry, B, The Buildings of England: Hertfordshire, (1977), 148

Legal

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