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Latitude: 51.9746 / 51°58'28"N
Longitude: -0.3339 / 0°20'1"W
OS Eastings: 514541
OS Northings: 231997
OS Grid: TL145319
Mapcode National: GBR H5M.0G2
Mapcode Global: VHGNK.5MCL
Plus Code: 9C3XXMF8+VF
Entry Name: Orchard Cottage
Listing Date: 24 October 1988
Grade: II
Source: Historic England
Source ID: 1347112
English Heritage Legacy ID: 163167
ID on this website: 101347112
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 HIGH STREET
TL 1431 (North side)
7/157 No. 7
- (Orchard Cottage)
- II
House. Circa 1600, E extension c.1980. Timber frame, roughcast, with
steep pitched roof formerly thatched now slated. A 2-storeys and attic,
2-cells, internal chimney, lobby-entry plan house facing S with
contemporary lean-to rear outshut, and 2-storeys E extension in matching
finishes. S front has 3 3-lights flush casement windows to each floor,
gabled porch opposite large chimney, and another to E extension next E
corner. Interior has exposed timbers with jowled posts, unjowled mid-bay
posts, clasped-purlin roof on straight inclined queen-posts, edge-halved
scarf joints, long thin straight tension braces, chamfered axial floor
beams with ogee stops and roughly squared joists. W room more important
with Jacobean scrolled bracket supporting W end of floor beam, principal
fireplace with pointed arched recesses in back, and winding stair to S
of stack. Moulded plank door on 1st floor.
Listing NGR: TL1454131997
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