Timbers
TIMBERS, 40, STOCKS ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1078051
- Date first listed:
- 30-Nov-1966
- List Entry Name:
- Timbers
- Statutory Address:
- TIMBERS, 40, STOCKS ROAD
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- Reference:
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1078051
- Date first listed:
- 30-Nov-1966
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 29-May-1986
- List Entry Name:
- Timbers
- Statutory Address 1:
- TIMBERS, 40, STOCKS 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:
- TIMBERS, 40, STOCKS ROAD
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Hertfordshire
- District:
- Dacorum (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Aldbury
- National Grid Reference:
- SP 96555 12675
Details
ALDBURY STOCKS ROAD SP 9612 (East side) 12/10 No. 40 (Timbers) 30.11.66 (Formerly listed as Timbers) GV II House. Early/mid C16 N part, S part rebuilt mid C17, hipped S extension late C18, restored with N extension 1931. Timber frame on brick sill with red brick infill panels. Roughcast N gable. Steep old red tile roofs. A 2-storeys, attic and cellar building facing W with single-storeys extensions to S and N. Older N part, with attic and cellar, is an original unheated parlour block serving an open hall to S replaced in C17 by a similar front-jettied 2 storeys block of matching floor and roofheight. W front has exposed timbers on both floors and 2 long flush 5-light casement leaded windows on each floor. N half has heavier wide-spaced uprights and heavy bull-nosed joists. Curious junction of jetty beams at middle of building. S part has slighter timbers and plain squared joists. Bottom plate of wall extends to S of centre where hall originally stood (and the best face of S wall of the N block is on S, to face into the former hall). Large external S gable chimney has had a flue added to serve the upper floor of the S part. Later N gable chimney to serve the parlour. This has chamfered and stopped joists and axial floor beam, stair trap trimmed by joists in NE corner, and remains of wall painting c.1600 below the rear staircase with lozenge geometric painted panels with fleurs-des-lis. (RCHM Typescript: Davis (1980) No.10).
Listing NGR: SP9655512675
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 355646
- 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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