The Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the East Hertfordshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 22 February 1967. House.

The Cottage

WRENN ID
low-jamb-poplar
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
East Hertfordshire
Country
England
Date first listed
22 February 1967
Type
House
Source
Historic England listing

Description

TL 3929 HORMEAD HORMEAD DANE (South side) Great Hormead

12/113 The Cottage 22.2.67

  • II

House. C17 or early C18, remodelled as cottage ornée late C18 or early C19, W end room added after 1844. Timber frame plastered with steep thatched roof. 1 ½-storeys, 3-cells, internal chimney, lobby entry plan house, set back and facing N, with added W bay and projecting thatched porch a third from E end. 6 windows long with wallhead carried up for 3 hipped dormers. Gothic casement windows in triplets with shafts between, arched heads, segmental super-arches and louvred external shutters. Fine interior with octagonal entrance hall and coved niches at cardinal points, 6-panel doors with reeded surrounds to lower panels, fireplaces with corner blocks to moulded architraves. Buckler dwg. of 1844 shows similar arrangement without W room and with lean-to glazed conservatory to W of porch. Marked as Great Hormead Cottage on O.S.

Listing NGR: TL3998429905

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