Hanging Cover Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the East Hertfordshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 23 November 1983. House.
Hanging Cover Cottage
- WRENN ID
- errant-column-sable
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- East Hertfordshire
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 23 November 1983
- Type
- House
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Hanging Wood TL 32 SE STANDON BARWICK ROAD (west side) )
1/27 Hanging Cover Cottage
GV II
House. Circa 1500, altered in C17, restored c1970, extended at N 1982. Timber frame on brick and flint plinth. Plastered above, weatherboarded below. Steep old red tile roofs. One and a half storeys old S part and C20 single-storey weatherboarded N part in line facing E. Large central chimney at the change of height and small external gable chimney at S. Gabled dormer to old part with 2-light casement below and a boarded door to right in a Tudor arched. doorway. 2 small casement oriels on S end, one to each floor. The old part of the house comprises the upper end bay of a formerly 2-bay open hall, and the adjoining 2-storeyed bay. Crown-post roof with longitudial arched braces to collar purlin and cambered tie-beam with arched brace. Unusual jointing detail in ground floor partition where most studs are kept firm by a combination of tongue-and-groove and wedges. Frame exposed inside house. (RCHM Typescript)
Listing NGR: TL3874620215
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