Button Snap is a Grade II listed building in the East Hertfordshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 22 February 1967. House. 1 related planning application.
Button Snap
- WRENN ID
- heavy-portal-rowan
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- East Hertfordshire
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 22 February 1967
- Type
- House
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
TL 32 NW WESTMILL CHERRY GREEN (north side) 1/5 Button Snap 22. 2. 67
- II
House. C17 or earlier, E part possibly a later extension. Timber frame roughcast on plastered red brick sill. Very steep thatched roof hipped at W and with higher eaves in E part. Originally probably a 2-cell house facing S with an end chimney at E, with slightly later one and a half storeys E extension beyond the chimney. Single storey W part has slightly battered end wall and central plank door flanked by 3-light flush mullioned wooden casement windows with leaded lattice glazing. A small ceramic plaque each side of door give information on Lamb. Single small leaded window to E part on S wall, with door and window in end wall and 2-light leaded attic window. Owned by Charles Lamb from 1812 to 1815 and mentioned in his essay 'My First Play'. Presented by Mrs Greg to the Royal Society of Arts and acquired by the Charles Lamb Society in 1949. (Ewing (1928) 133-4).
Listing NGR: TL3490226426
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