The Old Cottage (Opposite Darrs Lane) is a Grade II listed building in the Dacorum local planning authority area, England. First listed on 2 December 1986. House. 5 related planning applications.
The Old Cottage (Opposite Darrs Lane)
- WRENN ID
- solemn-baluster-swallow
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Dacorum
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 2 December 1986
- Type
- House
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
NORTHCHURCH SHOOTERS WAY SP 90 NE (South side) 3/238 The Old Cottage - (opposite Darrs Lane)
- II
House. C16, E part C17, renovated and single-storey W extension 1984. Timber frame on stucco sill, roughcast with steep old red tile roofs, half hipped at W. A single-cell house facing N with large flint and brick external E gable chimney offset as if to allow for a gable entrance beside it. Extended to E with new lobby entrance in C17 with new fireplace in narrow red brick. Irregular N front with small leaded casement windows recessed and door in middle. Jowled posts with curved braces to tie beams. Clasped purlin roof with collar- and queen-strut trusses in former end walls. Straight wind braces to very heavy purlins. Flat layed rafters. Crossbeams and chamfered axial, floor beam. Mortices for wattle and daub infill and central 4-light diamond mullioned window under tie-beam. Wide open fireplace. Associated with novelist Ivy Compton-Burnett.
Listing NGR: SP9681808082
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