MARASH HOUSE

MARASH HOUSE, 2-5, BROOK STREET

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Overview

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1078027
Date first listed:: 29-May-1986
List Entry Name:: MARASH HOUSE
Statutory Address:: MARASH HOUSE, 2-5, BROOK STREET

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1078027
Date first listed:: 29-May-1986
List Entry Name:: MARASH HOUSE
Statutory Address 1:: MARASH HOUSE, 2-5, BROOK STREET

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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This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

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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Location

Statutory Address:: MARASH HOUSE, 2-5, BROOK STREET

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

County:: Hertfordshire
District:: Dacorum (District Authority)
Parish:: Tring
National Grid Reference:: SP 92613 11544

Details

TRING BROOK STREET SP 9211 (West side) 11/50 Nos. 2 to 5 - (Marash House) GV II House, now offices. C17 or earlier, C19 rear extension and shop front, early C20 rear extension. Timber frame on roughcast high sill, frame exposed on front with roughcast infill panels to upper floor smooth stucco face to RH part but roughcast at LH. Frame part exposed on ground floor at N end. Red brick rear extensions. Steep old red tile roof. A 2-storeys, 3-cells, internal chimney plan house facing E with 2- and 3-storeys rear extensions. Front of 3 structural bays and close spaced studs to upper floor. Eaves have been heightened. Large axial chimney a third from N end. 3 windows long irregular E front. 3-light flush casements to left, 8/8 panes flush sash window in middle over a C19 pilastered shop front with moulded capping to fascia, divided panes, rectangular fanlights to 4-panel moulded house door on LH and glazed shop door on RH. RH end has small paned swept dormer window rising through the eaves, and 3-light window below. Central part has large flat chamfered joists spanning from an axial chamfered beam, supported at N on large back-to-back fireplace served by main stack. Off-centre axial beam in N part suggests it may have originated as a cross-wing. Exposed post and rails in rear wall of middle and N rooms.

Listing NGR: SP9261311544

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Legacy System number:: 355687
Legacy System:: LBS

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This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.