Number 1, and 2 (Woodside Cottage)
NUMBER 1, AND 2 (WOODSIDE COTTAGE), 1 2, PAYNES END
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1347721
- Date first listed:
- 13-Dec-1984
- List Entry Name:
- Number 1, and 2 (Woodside Cottage)
- Statutory Address:
- NUMBER 1, AND 2 (WOODSIDE COTTAGE), 1 2, PAYNES END
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1347721
- Date first listed:
- 13-Dec-1984
- List Entry Name:
- Number 1, and 2 (Woodside Cottage)
- Statutory Address 1:
- NUMBER 1, AND 2 (WOODSIDE COTTAGE), 1 2, PAYNES END
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:
- NUMBER 1, AND 2 (WOODSIDE COTTAGE), 1 2, PAYNES END
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Hertfordshire
- District:
- East Hertfordshire (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Anstey
- National Grid Reference:
- TL 40327 33360
Details
TL 4033 ANSTEY PAYNES END (South side) 6/22 - Nos 1, and 2 (Woodside Cottage)
- II
House, now 2 houses. Circa 1500 open hall house, W part C19 and later C20. Timber frame roughcast, white weatherboarding to E bay, matching roughcast extensions at W, and continuous steep thatched roof hipped at E. Originally a 4-bay open hall house facing N, it still has a soot-blackened roof structure, with framing for W hip and gablet preserved. Solar at E end with heavy flat axial joists and steep stair against rear wall, and trimmed stair opening in SW corner of former service room at W. Curved tension braces in rear wall and in partition at upper end of hall. Curved wind braces to central truss of hall (tie-beam cut away). Large internal chimney with back-to-back fireplaces, and formerly an oven, inserted in lower bay of hall in C18 and lower part of W partition of hall cut away. Hall floored and rear dormer inserted. Divided in C19 sharing central chimney. No.1 at E. A most interesting survival of a late medieval small open hall house. (Bailey (1980)18).
Listing NGR: TL4032733360
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 160243
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Other
Bailey, (1980)
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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