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-Sept-1983
- List Entry Name:
- The Old School and Mount Pleasant
- Statutory Address:
- Mount Pleasant, 21, Cambridge Road, Thundridge, SG12 0SU
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1078709
- Date first listed:
- 30-Sept-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
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:
- 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
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- 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.
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