3, HIGH STREET

3, HIGH STREET

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Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1077006
Date first listed:
24-Jan-1967
List Entry Name:
3, HIGH STREET
Statutory Address:
3, HIGH STREET
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Official list entry

Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1077006
Date first listed:
24-Jan-1967
List Entry Name:
3, HIGH STREET
Statutory Address 1:
3, HIGH STREET

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.

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Corrections and minor amendments

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.

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Corrections and minor amendments

Location

Statutory Address:
3, HIGH STREET

The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.

County:
Hertfordshire
District:
East Hertfordshire (District Authority)
Parish:
Stanstead Abbots
National Grid Reference:
TL3860911925

Details

TL 3811
13/3
24.1.67

STANSTEAD ABBOTS
HIGH STREET
(north side)
Stanstead Abbots village
No 3

GV
II

Shop with upper floors. C16 or earlier, extended to rear in C17.
Timberframed and roughcast with weatherboarding to E flank on
ground floor, and stucco to front. Upper part of front
temporarily covered in bit felt. Old red tiled gabled roofs. On
a narrow and angled town site a two and a half storeys building
roofed parallel with the street with a front jetty and an
internal gable chimney on the W. A tall 1-storey C17 shallow
rear addition with lower parallel pitched roof has a large
central chimney of red brick. The W side of a former gatehouse
to the Red Lion Inn now forms the weatherboarded and roughcast E
side wall. Crown-post and collar-purlin roof structure exposed
in E gable. Heavy bull-nosed joists of jetty have one heavy
curved bracket remaining at W end. Small gabled dormer with
bargeboard similar to those on Red Lion. Flush-panelled half-
glazed door with pilasters each side. Short similar pilasters to
frame of triple shop window with flush casement windows. Flush
box of sash window to upper floor. Part of a group with the Red.
Lion and the Clock House.

Listing NGR: TL3860911925

Legacy

The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.

Legacy System number:
355901
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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