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Latitude: 51.7538 / 51°45'13"N
Longitude: -0.0854 / 0°5'7"W
OS Eastings: 532253
OS Northings: 207860
OS Grid: TL322078
Mapcode National: GBR KC3.WSH
Mapcode Global: VHGPV.G5QV
Plus Code: 9C3XQW37+GR
Entry Name: Bentleys Cottage
Listing Date: 24 November 1966
Last Amended: 20 April 1988
Grade: II
Source: Historic England
Source ID: 1176904
English Heritage Legacy ID: 160643
ID on this website: 101176904
Location: Brickendon, East Hertfordshire, SG13
County: Hertfordshire
District: East Hertfordshire
Civil Parish: Brickendon Liberty
Traditional County: Hertfordshire
Lieutenancy Area (Ceremonial County): Hertfordshire
Church of England Parish: Bayford
Church of England Diocese: St.Albans
Tagged with: Cottage
TL 30 NW BRICKENDON LIBERTY BRICKENDON GREEN (East side)
3/36 No. 5 24.11.66 (Bentleys Cottage) (formerly listed as No. 1, and No. 2)
GV II
House. C15 or earlier S crosswing, hall range early/mid C17, N bay probably C19, renovated after stripping to frame 1973. Timber frame on low black painted sill, roughcast with frame exposed in older parts. Steep old red tile roofs, S wing hipped. 2-storeys house, facing W, set back on large plot next village green. Projecting 2-storeys jettied W crosswing has catslide W outshut, set back, and front gable altered to hip. Convex curved tension braces and central window on 1st floor, and straight tension brace to ground floor. Higher 2-storeys hall range has central chimney and framing in 2 bays with very narrow central chimney bay in which ground floor 2-light window replaces former lobby-entrance doorway. Stair to rear of stack. 2 windows to each floor. Flush 2-lights casements. Single bay N extension with matching window to each floor. Boarded door now gives entrance into S wing. Round-headed recess in each face of large square chimney stack. Interior has exposed timbers with 2 3-lights original diamond mullioned windows and shutter grooves in S wing, arched braces, cambered tie-beams, collar rafter roof. Axial beams carry floors of hall range, and upper room has a 4-centred arched brick chamfered open fireplace. Windows with ovolo-moulded mullions remain. S wing has edge-halved scarf joints with bridled butts in wallplate. (RCHM Typescript).
Listing NGR: TL3225307860
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