Description

BOVINGDON CHESHAM ROAD
TL 00 SW (South side)
Whitehart Cross

6/5 White Hart Cottage
-

- II

2 houses, now one house. Early C18 probably incorporating older timber
frame ('AD 1717' deeply cut into brick to left of N door), lower W
extension and alterations later C20. Red brick in English-bond, some
black headers and Flemish bond to E gable. Flint walled W extension.
Steep old red tile roof with catslide to rear outshut. A pair of
adjoining 1½ storeys houses at crossroads facing S. A gabled dormer
window at the eaves to each half and a wide and a narrow small-paned
casement window under segmental arch to each house. The narrow windows
side by side in middle replace the former front doors. Large external E
gable chimney with offsets and oven under tiled roof. Similar W gable
chimney removed in C20. 2-bays roof structure and crossbeam for former
partition between houses. Tithe Map of 1838 shows 2 houses with small
gable outshuts. Interior has exposed beams, open fireplace with bake
oven lacking only wooden door. 2 gabled dormers also on rear roofslope.
(Robert(1975)no. 7).

Listing NGR: TL0059703254

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26392763

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