Water Lane Cottage
WATER LANE COTTAGE, WATER LANE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1348399
- Date first listed:
- 02-Dec-1986
- List Entry Name:
- Water Lane Cottage
- Statutory Address:
- WATER LANE COTTAGE, WATER LANE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1348399
- Date first listed:
- 02-Dec-1986
- List Entry Name:
- Water Lane Cottage
- Statutory Address 1:
- WATER LANE COTTAGE, WATER LANE
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:
- WATER LANE COTTAGE, WATER LANE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Hertfordshire
- District:
- Dacorum (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Bovingdon
- National Grid Reference:
- TL 01391 02664
Details
BOVINGDON WATER LANE TL 00 SW (East side) 6/50 Water Lane Cottage -
- II
House. Late C15, open hall house, floor inserted in C16, reduced to 2 bays and brick cased in C18. N end added c.1968. Timber frame cased in red brick with steep old red tile roof. A 2-storeys 2 windows house facing W with hipped glazed central porch. 3-light leaded casement windows. Single storey brick and tile extension beyond external N gable chimney. The building represents half of a 4-bays medieval hall house formerly extending to N. The bay remaining was the upper end bay of the hall and has the timbered partition with mortices for the pegs supporting the bench. Former open truss in roofspace has an arched-braced collar beam (not a cruck as noted by Pevsner(1977)107). Inserted floor in hall has elaborately moulded beam and chamfered joists with 3-sided stepped stops. Off-centre placing of beam in front of chimney points to an earlier wooden chimney replaced by the present C18 one. Jowled posts and straight braces in S gable with shutter groove under S end tie-beam and central post. Stair trap in SE corner. Carpenter marks on flat joists. Clasped-purlin roof structure. Cast iron Boxmoor grazing rights plaque no.657 (and another no.658 preserved in house). (RCHM Typescript).
Listing NGR: TL0139102664
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 157577
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Pevsner, N, Cherry, B, The Buildings of England: Hertfordshire, (1977), 107
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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