Old Pound House
OLD POUND HOUSE, 20, HOLLYBUSH LANE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1089130
- Date first listed:
- 11-Jun-1986
- List Entry Name:
- Old Pound House
- Statutory Address:
- OLD POUND HOUSE, 20, HOLLYBUSH LANE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1089130
- Date first listed:
- 11-Jun-1986
- List Entry Name:
- Old Pound House
- Statutory Address 1:
- OLD POUND HOUSE, 20, HOLLYBUSH LANE
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:
- OLD POUND HOUSE, 20, HOLLYBUSH LANE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Hertfordshire
- District:
- East Hertfordshire (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Datchworth
- National Grid Reference:
- TL2655219270
Details
TL 21 NE
3/39
DATCHWORTH
HOLLYBUSH LANE
(North side)
Datchworth
No. 20 (Old Pound House)
II
House. C16 origins. Remodelled early to mid C17. Extended and altered
C19 and C20. Timber frame to core, pargetted rendering and tile hanging.
Whitewashed and rendered brick additions. Tiled roofs. Originally
probably 3 bays, made a lobby entry with a short wing to rear centre,
later gabled additions to rear and to right. 2 storeys. Garden
elevation, early bays all tile hung with renewed brick base. Ground
floor French doors and C20 canted bay window, first floor scattered
lattice casements. C17 central axial ridge stack, multiform and part
rebuilt with an oversailing cap. A C19 bay added to right has a ground
floor lean-to outshut with an entrance in right return. Left gable end
exposed plates. C19 right gable end has mixed casements, cambered head
on first floor. To rear, right bay and projecting gabled wing to centre
have 2 light flush frame leaded casements. Projecting further from left
bay is a C19 double gabled block, rendered with similar casements.
Attached to right end from garden is a 1 storey range linking to former
octagonal well house. Interior: exposed framing with curved passing
tension braces in walling, unusual scarf joint on first floor, posts
moulded on ground floor and jowled above, cambered tie beams, clasped
purlin roof, windbraces. Ovolo moulded stop chamfered axial binding
beams, stop chamfered timber fireplace lintels, some reset C17
panelling. (T.O. Beachcroft and W.B. Emms, Five Hide Village, 1984:
RCHM Typescript).
Listing NGR: TL2655219270
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 356144
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Beachcroft, T O, Emms, W B, Five Hide Village, (1984)
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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