Bentley'S Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the East Hertfordshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 13 December 1984. House. 3 related planning applications.
Bentley'S Cottage
- WRENN ID
- tenth-plinth-shade
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- East Hertfordshire
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 13 December 1984
- Type
- House
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Bentley's Cottage is a house dating to around 1700, with western additions constructed in the 1970s. The older eastern section has a timber frame on a black stuccoed plinth. It is clad in white weatherboarding and has a thatched roof with four eyebrow dormers facing the front. A red-tiled gabled rear wing and a lean-to porch, set back on the west side, are also present.
The house is long, extending over sixteen bays and three rooms, and faces south. Originally, the eastern part contained a winding staircase beside what was then the west gable, with an internal chimney and a bread oven. It featured a single large ground floor room, with a narrow service room at the east end. A central entrance and two front windows are above which are dormers. The oven projected west into a barn, now replaced by a two-dormer western extension which includes a door and end window. Flat-faced two-light casement windows are found in the dormers and eastern part, with a three-light window in the western part. An iron door gives access to the oven, and there are axial beams in the eastern portion.
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