Filmer Cottage

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TL 3712 12/12

GREAT AMWELL CAUTHERLY LANE Filmer Cottage

(Formerly listed as Filmer Cottage opposite George II PH, ST JOHNS LANE (south side) Great Amwell village)

GV II House. 1711 'restored' 1887 by R.W Mylne. Timber frame exposed between colourwashed plaster panels, decorative red tile hanging to upper part. Steep old red tiled roof, half-hipped at south and carved round a two-storeys polygonal bay window at the south west corner. A one and a half storeys two windows house with central gabled porch and gabled dormers over three-light windows rising above the eaves with half-timbered gables. Very massive red brick north gable chimney with several diamond chimney shafts. Smaller central chimney. Four-panel moulded door central. In raised plaster on south gable 'SF 1711' and 'Restored 1887 RWM.'

Susan Filmer was joint heiress to Amwell Manor in succession to Thomas Filmer who died in 1701 (VCH (1912) 417).

A most picturesque historic house at the centre of the Conservation Area. Part of a group with the George IV Public House and The Homestead.

Listing NGR: TL3711412506