Description

GREAT GADDESDEN CLEMENTS END ROAD
TL 01 SW
(West side)
Ballingdon Bottom

3/72 Lovatts Cottage
26.1.67 (formerly listed as
Ballingdon Farm Cottages,
Gaddesden Row, the West
block)

GV II

House. Early C16, open hall house, floored in c.1550-1575, brick
internal chimney late C17, alterations in early C19 for cottages, and
renovated c.1968. Timber frame infilled with red brick, steep old red
tile roof. A 2-storeys house of 4 structural bays facing N. Front has 4
casement windows on each floor, and large internal chimney near middle
of house. Flush casement windows renewed. Middle 2 bays built as hall
open to roof, end bays always of 2 storeys. Lack of smoke blackening in
roofs indicates a former timber framed chimney. W bay had pantry,
buttery and staircase. Parlour in E bay with stair in anteroom. Beaded
joists in floor inserted in hall and wall paintings in hall and parlour
point to C16 date. Those on E wall of hall were of 3/4 female figures
flanking or forming part of fantastic columns in classical Renaissance
form. Panelled texts in English to parlour. (Pevsner (1977)151: RCHM
Typescript).

Listing NGR: TL0381613965

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26467768

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Recommended Books

• 
  Old House Eco Handbook: A Practical Guide to Retrofitting for Energy-Efficiency & Sustainability
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  Cumbria: Cumberland, Westmorland and Furness (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
• 
  Georgian Style and Design for Contemporary Living
• 
  ENGLAND GUIDE TO POST WAR LISTED: A Guide to Post-war Listed Buildings
• 
  [(Shropshire)] [By (author) Nikolaus Pevsner] published on (January, 1958)
• 
  Devon (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)