Bircham Cottages
BIRCHAM COTTAGES, NOTTINGHAM ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1348253
- Date first listed:
- 27-Jul-1972
- List Entry Name:
- Bircham Cottages
- Statutory Address:
- BIRCHAM COTTAGES, NOTTINGHAM ROAD
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- Date:
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- Reference:
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- Rights:
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1348253
- Date first listed:
- 27-Jul-1972
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 03-Oct-1985
- List Entry Name:
- Bircham Cottages
- Statutory Address 1:
- BIRCHAM COTTAGES, NOTTINGHAM 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:
- BIRCHAM COTTAGES, NOTTINGHAM ROAD
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Hertfordshire
- District:
- Three Rivers (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Non Civil Parish
- National Grid Reference:
- TQ 02869 93974
Details
RICKMANSWORTH NOTTINGHAM ROAD TQ 09 SW (Southwest side) Heronsgate 8/208 Bircham Cottage 27.7.72 (formerly listed as Bircham and Little Whaddon)
GV II
House, formerly a semi-detached pair. 1846-7 for Chartist Co-operative Land Company. Stuccoed brick. Welsh slate roof. 2 storey pedimented central block with slightly recessed 1 storey wings, that to left raised, 1:2:1, an arrangement not found in other Chartist settlements. C20 casements. Plinth, a rebated strip separates centre bays. In pediment a rectangular panel with sides extended downwards, a sign used throughout O'Connorville. Bargeboards. Entrance in right wing in a porch on gable end, pedimental surround. Gable to front on raised left wing, ground floor canted bay addition, first floor sash, dentilled brick eaves. C20 entrance porch to rear left. Axial ridge stack, stack to rear of right wing. Interior not inspected. Amongst the best surviving examples of the houses of O'Connorville founded by Feargus O'Connor, Chartist leader, as the first settlement under his Land Plan, an important aftermath of Chartism and precursor of Garden Cities. A school and 35 cottages were built, each with 2 to 4 acres of land. (Hertfordshire Past and Present, no.7, p.19, 1967: Pevsner 1977).
Listing NGR: TQ0286993974
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 158852
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Pevsner, N, Cherry, B, The Buildings of England: Hertfordshire, (1977)
Hertfordshire Past and Present in Hertfordshire Past and Present, (1967)
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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