The Old School and Mount Pleasant

Mount Pleasant, 21, Cambridge Road, Thundridge, SG12 0SU

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Overview

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1078709
Date first listed:: 30-Sep-1983
List Entry Name:: The Old School and Mount Pleasant
Statutory Address:: Mount Pleasant, 21, Cambridge Road, Thundridge, SG12 0SU

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Date:: 2007-03-15
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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1078709
Date first listed:: 30-Sep-1983
List Entry Name:: The Old School and Mount Pleasant
Statutory Address 1:: Mount Pleasant, 21, Cambridge Road, Thundridge, SG12 0SU
Statutory Address 2:: Old School, Cambridge Road, Thundridge, SG12 0SU

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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Corrections and minor amendments

Location

Statutory Address:: Mount Pleasant, 21, Cambridge Road, Thundridge, SG12 0SU
Statutory Address:: Old School, Cambridge Road, Thundridge, SG12 0SU

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

County:: Hertfordshire
District:: East Hertfordshire (District Authority)
Parish:: Thundridge
National Grid Reference:: TL3576217167

Details

This list entry was subject to a Minor Amendment on 15/10/2019

TL 3517 9/21

THUNDRIDGE CAMBRIDGE ROAD (west side) The Old School and No 21 (Mount Pleasant)

(Formerly listed as The Old School and No 21)

GV II

School, now two houses. Later C19. Hitch's patent bricks of a buff colour, with low pitched slate roof. Stock brick shallow rear extension with slate roof. Symmetrical two storeys three windows range facing north with tall central chimney of four separate circular shafts with necking and cap in Hitch bricks. Single-storey schoolroom and porch on west end with slate roofs, also in Hitch bricks. Unfortunate new casement windows.

Caleb Hitch of Ware patented his bricks in 1828, roughly 12" x 6" x 6" having a system of interlocking to economise in mortar and give structural strength. Their use is confined to the Ware district. This building is the best surviving example of the varied uses of Hitch's bricks in this area.

Listing NGR: TL3576217167

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Legacy System number:: 355999
Legacy System:: LBS

Sources

Books and journals
Branch Johnson, W, The Industrial Archaeology of Hertfordshire, (1970), 20

Legal

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