Chestnut Tree Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the North Hertfordshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 21 October 1982. House. 1 related planning application.

Chestnut Tree Cottage

WRENN ID
sacred-stair-wax
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
North Hertfordshire
Country
England
Date first listed
21 October 1982
Type
House
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Chestnut Tree Cottage is a house dating from the 17th century, with extensions and alterations made in the 19th century. The structure features a timber frame that is weatherboarded, with some areas rendered. It has a thatched roof, with some sections covered in slates. The cottage has a three-cell lobby entry and has been extended to the left and rear. It is one storey high with an attic.

The front of the cottage has a half-glazed door located between the left and centre bays, flanked by 19th-century canted bays that contain sash windows. To the right on the ground floor is a small pane horizontal sliding sash window. In the attic, there are three similar windows with eyebrow thatching. The cottage has a rebuilt ridge stack and a 19th-century stack at the right end.

To the left, there is an addition that was formerly a shop, which is rendered and has a catslide roof over a projecting lean-to at the front. The left end features a two-light casement window in the attic beneath a half-hipped roof. There is also a one-storey outshut that is weatherboarded, containing three two-light casement windows and topped with a hipped slate roof.

At the rear, there is a 19th-century weatherboarded brick gabled wing with a slate roof and horizontal sliding sash windows. Attached to the right end of the main block is a weatherboarded outbuilding with a corrugated iron roof. Inside, the cottage features stop-chamfered binding beams.

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