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130-136, Piccott's End

A Grade I Listed Building in Grovehill, Hertfordshire

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Coordinates

Latitude: 51.7708 / 51°46'14"N

Longitude: -0.4777 / 0°28'39"W

OS Eastings: 505137

OS Northings: 209107

OS Grid: TL051091

Mapcode National: GBR G6F.S3H

Mapcode Global: VHFRZ.NRTD

Plus Code: 9C3XQGCC+8W

Entry Name: 130-136, Piccott's End

Listing Date: 20 May 1954

Grade: I

Source: Historic England

Source ID: 1342208

English Heritage Legacy ID: 355629

ID on this website: 101342208

Location: Piccotts End, Dacorum, Hertfordshire, HP1

County: Hertfordshire

District: Dacorum

Electoral Ward/Division: Grovehill

Parish: Non Civil Parish

Traditional County: Hertfordshire

Lieutenancy Area (Ceremonial County): Hertfordshire

Church of England Parish: Hemel Hempstead

Church of England Diocese: St.Albans

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Description


PICCOTT'S END
1.
5252
(East Side)
Nos 130 to 136 (even)
[Formerly listed as
Nos 67 to 70 (consec)]
TL 0509 8/207 20.5.54.

I
2.
C15 building, for many years a range of cottages. Timber frame, whitewashed
plaster, red brick, old tiled roofs. 2 storeys, 5 gables, casement windows.
Crown post roof of 3 trusses visible in No 132 which contains very important
late C15 wall paintings, discovered March 1953, on north-west side wall. Religious
themes, arranged like an ikonostasis, include Baptism, Christ in Majesty, Saints,
etc. No 134 recorded as containing later C16 wall paintings. Plaque on front
wall states that "In this Row of Cottages Sir Astley Cooper Bart, Surgeon to
King George IV, Senior Surgeon at Guy's Hospital 1800 to 1825, opened the First
Cottage Hospital January 1827." See Hertfordshire Archaeology, 3, pp 78-89.


Listing NGR: TL0513709107

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