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Latitude: 51.97 / 51°58'11"N
Longitude: -0.3321 / 0°19'55"W
OS Eastings: 514672
OS Northings: 231482
OS Grid: TL146314
Mapcode National: GBR H5M.DVP
Mapcode Global: VHGNK.6R85
Plus Code: 9C3XXM99+X4
Entry Name: Elm Cottage
Listing Date: 24 October 1988
Grade: II
Source: Historic England
Source ID: 1295369
English Heritage Legacy ID: 163153
ID on this website: 101295369
Location: Pirton, North Hertfordshire, SG5
County: Hertfordshire
District: North Hertfordshire
Civil Parish: Pirton
Built-Up Area: Pirton
Traditional County: Hertfordshire
Lieutenancy Area (Ceremonial County): Hertfordshire
Church of England Parish: Pirton
Church of England Diocese: St.Albans
Tagged with: Cottage
PIRTON BURY END
TL 1431 (South side)
7/143 Nos. 12 (Elm Cottage),
- and 14
- II
House, now 2 houses. C16, with earlier crosswing, floor and chimney
inserted in C17, divided in C19. Timber frame on stuccoed plinth,
roughcast with steep pitched old red tile roofs, now of red tiles at
front. A large T-plan house facing N with taller 2-storeys crosswing at
W. Large internal chimney a third from E end and projecting chimney on W
side of wing (rebuilt). N front has 4 windows to each floor. 2-lights
flush casement windows. 4-centred, hollow-chamfered, broad doorway at LH
end of front. Gabled porch to ground floor of crosswing. Single-storey
C20 garage linked to N end, and 2-storeys S extension c.1985. Hall range
consists of 2 bays at S and a longer hall bay next the crosswing which
is a separate older structure. Interior has exposed frame, swept jowls
to posts, chamfered cambered tie beam on curved braces. Curved tension
braces in walls. Edge-halved scarf joint in wallplate with bridled
butts. Close studded front wall. Clasped-purlin roof with curved
wind-braces. Shutter grooves under wallplate for mullioned windows.
Collar and vertical struts in end trusses. When the central brick
chimney was built in the 2nd bay from E the tie-beam of the truss
immediately to E was cut away and a rougher one introduced further to W
hard against the stack.
Listing NGR: TL1467231482
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