Description

TL 4113 HUNSDON ACORN STREET
(west side)

8/2 Spellers Cottages
Nos 1 and 2

11.9.80 (previously listed
as Nos 1 and 2
(Spellers Cottage))

GV II

2 houses adjoining. C16 cottage of 2 bays (No 1), possibly the
Warren House mentioned in 1667 (HLHS (1979) 35). No 1 was
remodelled when No 2 was built in the early C19 to form a semi-
detached pair. 2 storeys. 2 gabled bays to road with entrance
extension to No 2. Tiled roofs with C19 red brick stacks.
Timberframed with rendered fronts. 2-light iron casements with
leaded lights. C19 doorways with hood. No 1 retains original
C16 roof with square crown post with slender curved braces up to
collar purlin. No 2 with C19 rafter and purlin roof. The C18
Speller family of Hunsdon probably acquired the property in the
1840s and may have been responsible for the additions and
remodelling. A picturesque pair of semi-detached estate cottages
formed by the extension and disguising of a C16 cottage c1840.
Part of a group with Spellers, and with Rosella to NE.

Listing NGR: TL4180714056

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26395897

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Recommended Books

• 
  Cumbria: Cumberland, Westmorland and Furness (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
• 
  Pevsner's Architectural Glossary (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Introductions)
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  A Buying and Owning a Listed Building: A Brief Guide
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  For the Record
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  [(Cumberland and Westmorland)] [By (author) Nikolaus Pevsner] published on (January, 1967)
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  Hertfordshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)