The Baish Almshouses and Attached Forecourt Wall
THE BAISH ALMSHOUSES AND ATTACHED FORECOURT WALL, 79-89, ROYDON ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1078739
- Date first listed:
- 04-Dec-1951
- List Entry Name:
- The Baish Almshouses and Attached Forecourt Wall
- Statutory Address:
- THE BAISH ALMSHOUSES AND ATTACHED FORECOURT WALL, 79-89, ROYDON ROAD
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1078739
- Date first listed:
- 04-Dec-1951
- List Entry Name:
- The Baish Almshouses and Attached Forecourt Wall
- Statutory Address 1:
- THE BAISH ALMSHOUSES AND ATTACHED FORECOURT WALL, 79-89, ROYDON 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:
- THE BAISH ALMSHOUSES AND ATTACHED FORECOURT WALL, 79-89, ROYDON ROAD
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:
- TL 39015 11533
Details
TL 31NW STANSTEAD ABBOTS ROYDON ROAD (south side) Stanstead Abbots village 5/51 Nos 79 to 89 (odd) (The Baish Almshouses) and attached forecourt 4.12.51 wall) (Formerly listed as The Baish's GV Almhouses) II*
Almshouses. 1653 for Sir Edward Baesh. Red brick in English- bond with a long steep old red tiled roof. A single storey row of 3 handed pairs of almshouses facing NW. Each pair has 2 plank doors together, in a heavy chamfered wooden frame, a 3- light ovolo-moulded casement window with ironcentral opening light for each house, a gable over the door with a single small 2-light ovolo-moulded window with leaded lattice glazing, and a shared central chimney with a pair of diagonally set shafts. Toothed corbel course below the eaves and low plastered plinth. Modern single-storey small additions at rear and each end. Red brick wall around elongated forecourt garden, taller at ends, reduced at front but with heavy sloped brick coping reinstated. Square gatepiers with stone caps and C20 wrought iron gate. A landmark at a bend in the road at the S end of the village.
Listing NGR: TL3901511533
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 355963
- 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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