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Latitude: 51.9741 / 51°58'26"N
Longitude: -0.3366 / 0°20'11"W
OS Eastings: 514357
OS Northings: 231937
OS Grid: TL143319
Mapcode National: GBR H5L.CPY
Mapcode Global: VHGNK.3MXZ
Plus Code: 9C3XXMF7+M9
Entry Name: Lavender Cottage
Listing Date: 24 October 1988
Grade: II
Source: Historic England
Source ID: 1347095
English Heritage Legacy ID: 163186
ID on this website: 101347095
Location: Burge End, 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 Thatched cottage
PIRTON SHILLINGTON ROAD
TL 1431 (South side)
7/176 No. 21
- (Lavender Cottage)
GV II
House. Early C16 open hall house, early C17 W crosswing. Timber frame on
battered brick plinth, roughcast, with steep pitched thatch roofs. A
small L-shaped house set back from road facing N, with single-storey
hall range and 1 1/2-storeys W crosswing projecting only to front. 3
windows front with an upper window in gable of crosswing. 2-lights flush
casement windows with small-panes. Plank door opposite internal C17
chimney near middle of hall range. Originally a 2 rooms house open to
roof with hearth in W room shown by thicker soot blackening of
clasped-purlin roof. 2 posts on ground floor have stopped grooves for
wattle infill. Ceiling inserted on axial beam with internal chimney in
C17 heating W room. Crosswing added to W with unheated parlour and
chamber over reached by stair in SE corner. Chamfered and stopped beam.
1st floor partly in roof with traces of big windows below tie-beam.
Clasped-purlin roof with long straight windbraces and ceiling at purlin
level. C20 addition to rear. (RCHM Typescript).
Listing NGR: TL1435731937
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