Old Timbers
OLD TIMBERS, 5-7, VICARAGE ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1051627
- Date first listed:
- 29-May-1986
- List Entry Name:
- Old Timbers
- Statutory Address:
- OLD TIMBERS, 5-7, VICARAGE ROAD
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- Reference:
- IOE01/09134/04
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1051627
- Date first listed:
- 29-May-1986
- List Entry Name:
- Old Timbers
- Statutory Address 1:
- OLD TIMBERS, 5-7, VICARAGE ROAD
The scope of legal protection for listed buildings
This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.
Unless the List entry states otherwise, it includes both the structure itself and any object or structure fixed to it (whether inside or outside) as well as any object or structure within the curtilage of the building.
For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.
The scope of legal protection for listed buildings
This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.
Unless the List entry states otherwise, it includes both the structure itself and any object or structure fixed to it (whether inside or outside) as well as any object or structure within the curtilage of the building.
For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.
Location
- Statutory Address:
- OLD TIMBERS, 5-7, VICARAGE ROAD
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Hertfordshire
- District:
- Dacorum (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Wigginton
- National Grid Reference:
- SP 93957 10325
Details
WIGGINTON VICARAGE ROAD
SP 91 SW
(North Side)
4/170 Nos. 5/7
(Old Timbers)
GV II
House. C16 open hall house, C17 inserted floor in hall and inserted chimney, C18 brick
front with eaves raised, C19 alterations and subdivision as cottages, restored as one
house late C20. Timber frame on brick sill, exposed at rear to original height with
brick infill and plastered sill, cased at front in red brick with some blue bricks.
Steep red tiled roof. A long 2-storeys building set well back from road facing S.
4 windows to 1st floor and 5 to ground floor with gabled tiled porch to door near
middle. 2-light flush casements to 1st floor and 3-light to ground floor with small
panes and segmental arches. Large external W gable chimney with offsets and smaller
central chimney (probably replacing a larger and older chimney). Rear wall has wide-
spaced studs in 4 bays of timber framing with straight tension braces to a mid-height
rail. Interior has exposed timbers with step-jowled posts, tension braces in framed
partitions, wattle and daub in partition between 2-bay hall and W bay. Collar and queen-
strut clasped purlin roof with curved wind braces. Inserted floor in hall on chamfered
and hollow stopped axial beam with chamfered and stopped joists. W bay has squared joists
and axial beam.
Listing NGR: SP9395710325
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 355807
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Legal
This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.
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