Button Snap
BUTTON SNAP, CHERRY GREEN
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1347545
- Date first listed:
- 22-Feb-1967
- List Entry Name:
- Button Snap
- Statutory Address:
- BUTTON SNAP, CHERRY GREEN
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- Date:
- 2001-06-21
- Reference:
- IOE01/04677/28
- Rights:
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1347545
- Date first listed:
- 22-Feb-1967
- List Entry Name:
- Button Snap
- Statutory Address 1:
- BUTTON SNAP, CHERRY GREEN
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:
- BUTTON SNAP, CHERRY GREEN
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Hertfordshire
- District:
- East Hertfordshire (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Westmill
- National Grid Reference:
- TL 34902 26426
Details
TL 32 NW WESTMILL CHERRY GREEN (north side) 1/5 Button Snap 22. 2. 67
- II
House. C17 or earlier, E part possibly a later extension. Timber frame roughcast on plastered red brick sill. Very steep thatched roof hipped at W and with higher eaves in E part. Originally probably a 2-cell house facing S with an end chimney at E, with slightly later one and a half storeys E extension beyond the chimney. Single storey W part has slightly battered end wall and central plank door flanked by 3-light flush mullioned wooden casement windows with leaded lattice glazing. A small ceramic plaque each side of door give information on Lamb. Single small leaded window to E part on S wall, with door and window in end wall and 2-light leaded attic window. Owned by Charles Lamb from 1812 to 1815 and mentioned in his essay 'My First Play'. Presented by Mrs Greg to the Royal Society of Arts and acquired by the Charles Lamb Society in 1949. (Ewing (1928) 133-4).
Listing NGR: TL3490226426
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 161356
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Ewing, G, Westmill: The Story of a Hertfordshire Village, (1928), 133-4
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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