Orchard Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the North Hertfordshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 24 October 1988. House.
Orchard Cottage
- WRENN ID
- tilted-chalk-aspen
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- North Hertfordshire
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 24 October 1988
- Type
- House
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
PIRTON HIGH STREET TL 1431 (North side)
7/157 No. 7 - (Orchard Cottage)
- II
House. Circa 1600, E extension c.1980. Timber frame, roughcast, with steep pitched roof formerly thatched now slated. A 2-storeys and attic, 2-cells, internal chimney, lobby-entry plan house facing S with contemporary lean-to rear outshut, and 2-storeys E extension in matching finishes. S front has 3 3-lights flush casement windows to each floor, gabled porch opposite large chimney, and another to E extension next E corner. Interior has exposed timbers with jowled posts, unjowled mid-bay posts, clasped-purlin roof on straight inclined queen-posts, edge-halved scarf joints, long thin straight tension braces, chamfered axial floor beams with ogee stops and roughly squared joists. W room more important with Jacobean scrolled bracket supporting W end of floor beam, principal fireplace with pointed arched recesses in back, and winding stair to S of stack. Moulded plank door on 1st floor.
Listing NGR: TL1454131997
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