Cobwebs Folly Cottage Rose Cottage

COBWEBS, 31, STOCKS ROAD

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Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1348350
Date first listed:
30-Nov-1966
List Entry Name:
Cobwebs Folly Cottage Rose Cottage
Statutory Address:
COBWEBS, 31, STOCKS ROAD
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Official list entry

Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1348350
Date first listed:
30-Nov-1966
Date of most recent amendment:
29-May-1986
List Entry Name:
Cobwebs Folly Cottage Rose Cottage
Statutory Address 1:
COBWEBS, 31, STOCKS ROAD
Statutory Address 2:
FOLLY COTTAGE, 33, STOCKS ROAD
Statutory Address 3:
ROSE COTTAGE, 35, STOCKS ROAD

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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.

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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.

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Corrections and minor amendments

Location

Statutory Address:
COBWEBS, 31, STOCKS ROAD
Statutory Address:
FOLLY COTTAGE, 33, STOCKS ROAD
Statutory Address:
ROSE COTTAGE, 35, STOCKS ROAD

The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.

County:
Hertfordshire
District:
Dacorum (District Authority)
Parish:
Aldbury
National Grid Reference:
SP 96499 12564

Details

ALDBURY STOCKS ROAD SP 9612 (West side) 12/19 Nos. 31 (Cobwebs), 30.11.66 33 (Folly Cottage), and 35 (Rose Cottage) (formerly listed as No 35/37) GV II

House, now 3 houses. C16 open hall house, floor and chimney inserted in C17, later C18 entrance changed to upper (N) end of hall, made 3 houses in later C20. Timber frame on brick sill with exposed wide-spaced studs and posts on both floors, infilled with white painted brickwork. Steep old red tile roofs. l½-storeys, 3-bays, house facing E with a long 2-storeys, 4-bays, gabled S crosswing. Wide structural crosspassage in narrow bay in S end of hall range narrowed by 2 fireplaces inserted leaving a narrow space between. 2-light window in former door position with small 2-light window over. Gabled dormers at eaves over hall and N parlour bays. C18 leaded 3-light window with iron casement to hall with plank door to RH. Rectangular projecting bay window with small panes to parlour with added external N gable chimney to serve parlour fireplace. Flush casement windows with leaded glazing. One 2-light leaded casement to each floor of gable of S wing, set off-centre to N. S side of wing has 4 casement windows to first floor and 2 plank doors. Framing of E gable has jowled posts a cambered tie-beam and collar with clasped-purlins and square framing. Hall range has clasped purlin roof with large wind braces. (RCHM Typescript).

Listing NGR: SP9649112559

Legacy

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Legacy System number:
355655
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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