Three Horseshoes Cottage
THREE HORSESHOES COTTAGE, HORSESHOE HILL
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1347738
- Date first listed:
- 13-Dec-1984
- List Entry Name:
- Three Horseshoes Cottage
- Statutory Address:
- THREE HORSESHOES COTTAGE, HORSESHOE HILL
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1347738
- Date first listed:
- 13-Dec-1984
- List Entry Name:
- Three Horseshoes Cottage
- Statutory Address 1:
- THREE HORSESHOES COTTAGE, HORSESHOE HILL
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:
- THREE HORSESHOES COTTAGE, HORSESHOE HILL
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Hertfordshire
- District:
- East Hertfordshire (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Hormead
- National Grid Reference:
- TL4020529906
Details
TL 4029
13/117
HORMEAD
HORSESHOE HILL
(East side)
Great Hormead
Three Horseshoes Cottage
GV
II
House. C17, heightened to 2 storeys in late C18 or early C19. Timber
frame roughcast with slated roof but red tiled rear kitchen and red
pantiled rear lean-to. A 2 storeys, 2-cells, internal chimney, lobby
entry plan house facing W, with N end lean-to, gabled closed porch, rear
lean-to single storey gabled kitchen at NE linked to rear to a 2 storeys
timber framed dark weatherboarded mid C19 stable with roof now of
corrugated iron. Small parlour at S probably unheated. W front has 2
windows to each floor and porch in middle. 3-light flush casement
windows. Lean-to on N end has a sash window with 6/6 panes. Interior has
exposed timbers with jowled post at NW corner, face-halved bladed scarf
joint in former rear wallplate by stair (house 1½ storeys before raised
to 2 storeys in late C18), chamfered and stopped axial beam carrying
floor over hall with squared joists. Winding stair behind chimney. Old
plank door with iron fittings.
Listing NGR: TL4020529906
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 160338
- 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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