Pettit's

PETTIT'S, 16, DATCHWORTH GREEN

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Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1372106
Date first listed:
11-Jun-1986
List Entry Name:
Pettit's
Statutory Address:
PETTIT'S, 16, DATCHWORTH GREEN
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Official list entry

Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1372106
Date first listed:
11-Jun-1986
List Entry Name:
Pettit's
Statutory Address 1:
PETTIT'S, 16, DATCHWORTH GREEN

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

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.

Understanding list entries

Corrections and minor amendments

Location

Statutory Address:
PETTIT'S, 16, DATCHWORTH GREEN

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

County:
Hertfordshire
District:
East Hertfordshire (District Authority)
Parish:
Datchworth
National Grid Reference:
TL2677518341

Details

TL 21 NE
3/35

DATCHWORTH
DATCHWORTH GREEN
(Northeast side)
No. 16 (Pettit's)

GV
II

House. C17, part cased in early C18, refronted mid C19. Timber frame and
red brick, largely stuccoed. Steeply pitched tiled roof. 3 bays. 2
storeys and attics. Mid C19 facade has projecting entrance porch to
centre: recessed 6 panelled door with rectangular fanlight, small
architraved lights in returns, bracketed sills, cornice to flat head on
porch. Recessed glazing bar sashes, architraves with bracketed sills.
Plinth, plat band, cornice to blocking course, pilaster strips at ends.
2 box dormers over outer bays. Internal right end stack. Right gable end
is C18 red brick with burnt headers, diapering along gable line, blocked
segmental headed openings, 1 small light. Left gable end is plastered
timber frame with exposed plates and purlins, C19 moulded bargeboards, 2
light casements, conservatory lean-to. To rear brick casing to far right
only, some pargetting on first floor. C19 lean-to outshut, whitewashed
brick, slate roof, an entrance and a stack. Interior not inspected.
(T.O. Beachcroft and W.B. Emms, Five Hide Village, 1984).

Listing NGR: TL2677518341

Legacy

The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.

Legacy System number:
356140
Legacy System:
LBS

Sources

Books and journals
Beachcroft, T O, Emms, W B, Five Hide Village, (1984)

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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