The Flat the Gage
THE FLAT, BUCKS ALLEY
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1089108
- Date first listed:
- 20-Oct-1952
- List Entry Name:
- The Flat the Gage
- Statutory Address:
- THE FLAT, BUCKS ALLEY
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- Reference:
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1089108
- Date first listed:
- 20-Oct-1952
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 11-Jun-1986
- List Entry Name:
- The Flat the Gage
- Statutory Address 1:
- THE FLAT, BUCKS ALLEY
- Statutory Address 2:
- THE GAGE, BUCKS ALLEY
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 FLAT, BUCKS ALLEY
- Statutory Address:
- THE GAGE, BUCKS ALLEY
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Hertfordshire
- District:
- East Hertfordshire (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Little Berkhamsted
- National Grid Reference:
- TL 29661 07882
Details
LITTLE BERKHAMSTED BUCKS ALLEY TL 20 NE (North side) Little Berkhamsted 7/83 The Gage and The Flat 20.10.52 (formerly listed as Gage House.) - II
House. Early C16, floored and heated in C17, altered and extended late C18, C19 and C20. Timber frame with brick additions, rendered. Tiled roofs. Hall house with lower wing, additions at upper end. All 2 storeys. 3 bay hall range has entrance in original screens passage position to left, 6 panelled door, C18 doorcase with dentilled cornice, C19 tiled hood. 2 and 3 light casements, ground floor architraves with cornices. Close eaves. Large C17 axial stack to centre of hall with rebuilt multiple diagonal shafts. To right a gable to front over upper end, ground floor projecting rectangular bay addition, first floor 2 light architraved casement, bargeboards. To far right a small window on first floor with old leaded panes. Lower crosswing to left is set back slightly, ground floor projecting rectangular bay addition, first floor 2 light casement, bargeboarded gable. Left return has a large external stack with C19 diagonal shafts with a projection to right with a relieving arch. Crosswing extends further to rear, ground floor canted bay and first floor 3 light casement. C19 additions to rear of hall. Ground floor lean-to outshut open to right with steps up to a recessed entrance with moulded timber porch, 2/3 glazed doors to rear end of screens passage. Three first floor 2 light casements each in a separate gable, stack with diagonal shafts where hall meets lower wing to rear. C18 service block addition to upper end projects slightly to front with ground floor paired small pane architraved casements. Two first floor 2 light leaded pane casements. Right end stack with 2 diagonal shafts. Twin gabled right end with scattered sashes and casements, lean-to outshuts. A separate block added to rear of original upper end. 2 storeys. 1 bay of casements with a gable to garden. Further C20 addition to rear. Interior: late C17 or early C18 bolection moulded panelling, early C19 doorcases, late C19 staircase. Formerly known as Gazes Place. (RCHM 1910: G. Millington, Little Berkhamsted, 1981: RCHM Typescript).
Listing NGR: TL2966107882
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 356190
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Millington, G, Little Berkhamsted, (1981)
Other
Inventory of the Historical Monuments of Hertfordshire, (1910)
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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