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Hurst Cottage

grade II listed house in London Borough of Barnet, United Kingdom

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionFeb 26, 2026
Entity authorityQ20711740 ↗
Source-derived summary

Hurst Cottage is a grade II listed building on Hadley Common Road, in Monken Hadley, north of Chipping Barnet. The building was completed in the late 17th or early 18th century and faces Monken Hadley Common. It was first listed in 1949, originally under the name Coach House Cottage.

Editorial summary

Begin with the source’s own compact description: “Hurst Cottage” is grade II listed house in London Borough of Barnet, United Kingdom. The dossier treats that line as a proposition to test through Hurst, Cottage and grade, not as a finished interpretation.

Editorial reviewA dependable orientation record for establishing vocabulary, names and a first evidence trail. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1949—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. For this dossier, Hurst, Cottage and grade is the immediate research focus.
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The phrase “grade II listed house in London Borough of Barnet, United Kingdom” supplies a clear boundary for inquiry. It also exposes the unanswered questions: who defined that boundary, when it became stable and which sources sit outside it.

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Vocabulary and entity names are the principal evidence signals here, because they determine the precision of every later search. The source revision retrieved here is dated Feb 26, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q20711740. Authority coordinates are 51.660, -0.191. 1 of 1 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 1949.

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This entry incorporates text from “Hurst Cottage” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.