Willowthorpe
WILLOWTHORPE, HIGH STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1078760
- Date first listed:
- 30-Sept-1983
- List Entry Name:
- Willowthorpe
- Statutory Address:
- WILLOWTHORPE, HIGH STREET
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1078760
- Date first listed:
- 30-Sept-1983
- List Entry Name:
- Willowthorpe
- Statutory Address 1:
- WILLOWTHORPE, HIGH STREET
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:
- WILLOWTHORPE, HIGH STREET
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:
- TL3823711915
Details
TL 3811
13/13
STANSTEAD ABBOTS
HIGH STREET (OFF)
(north side)
Stanstead Abbots village Willowthorpe
II
House. Later C19. Said to have been built in 1864 by Italian
contractors. Mass concrete with stucco finish lined as ashlar.
Gabled slate roofs. 2-storeys, 3-windows house facing S. H-plan
house with parallel gabled wings with narrower qabled centre and
1-storey parapetted porch. Recessed sash windows. Rectangular
bay window and canted bay window flank porch on ground floor, and
canted bay on left return. Coat of arms on porch parapet of Ker
family with motto PRO CHRISTO ET PATRIA DULCE PERICULUM.
Bargeboards to gables. 1-storey outbuildings at rear. A C19
stucco villa set in its own grounds or river bank and little
altered. Of special interest for its early use of mass-concrete
construction.
Listing NGR: TL3823711915
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 355911
- 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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