Bunyans Cottage
BUNYANS COTTAGE, HITCHIN ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1347483
- Date first listed:
- 08-Feb-1988
- List Entry Name:
- Bunyans Cottage
- Statutory Address:
- BUNYANS COTTAGE, HITCHIN ROAD
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1347483
- Date first listed:
- 08-Feb-1988
- List Entry Name:
- Bunyans Cottage
- Statutory Address 1:
- BUNYANS COTTAGE, HITCHIN ROAD
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:
- BUNYANS COTTAGE, HITCHIN ROAD
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Hertfordshire
- District:
- North Hertfordshire (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Preston
- National Grid Reference:
- TL 18122 25474
Details
TL 12 NE PRESTON HITCHIN ROAD (West side)
2/98 Bunyans Cottage Wain Wood
II
House. C17 in 2 phases (middle part older), W extension mid C19, rear extensions late 1960s. Timber frame on red brick sill, red brick panel infill and steep old red tile roofs. W extension red brick with timber box eaves. Flat roofed rear extensions of white weatherboarding over red brick ground floors. A 2-storeys, 3-bays house facing S with 2-storeys single-cell C19 extension to W. Door into W end of wider middle bay of original house with C18 corner chimney inserted in SW corner of house. Front wall internal C18 chimney about 2M from E end. S front has battened door under gabled timber porch with 2-lights flush casement window over with small panes. Single-light casement flanks door. A similar 2-light casement to each floor of W extension, the ground floor with segmental arch. Frame exposed on both floors on S and E sides of old house. E gable has 2 2-lights casements to 1st floor and one on ground floor. Jowled posts, mid-height rail, central post to gable, clasped-purlin roof on collar at gable. On a secluded site in the wood associated with preaching by John Bunyan. Interior has exposed timbers, axial beams, corner fireplace to SE corner, moulded and chamfered lintel and 2 recesses to front-wall fireplace of E room (parlour), 2 posts side-by-side in rear wall where this E bay was added. (RCHM Typescript).
Listing NGR: TL1812225474
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 162890
- 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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