156 High Street, Stevenage

156, High Street, Stevenage, Hertfordshire

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An early C16 timber-framed house re-fronted in the C18. Read the official list entry to find out more.

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II*
List Entry Number:: 1101140
Date first listed:: 10-Apr-1975
List Entry Name:: 156 High Street, Stevenage
Statutory Address:: 156, High Street, Stevenage, Hertfordshire

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II*
List Entry Number:: 1101140
Date first listed:: 10-Apr-1975
Date of most recent amendment:: 16-Mar-2012
List Entry Name:: 156 High Street, Stevenage
Location Description:: 156, High Street, Stevenage, Hertfordshire
Statutory Address 1:: 156, High Street, Stevenage, Hertfordshire

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.

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This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

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.

Understanding list entries

Corrections and minor amendments

Location

Statutory Address:: 156, High Street, Stevenage, Hertfordshire

The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.

County:: Hertfordshire
District:: Stevenage (District Authority)
Parish:: Non Civil Parish
National Grid Reference:: TL2345824745

Summary

An early C16 timber-framed house re-fronted in the C18.

Reasons for Designation

156 High Street is designated at Grade II* for the following principal reasons:

* Architectural interest: it is a good example of an early C16 timber-framed house with a crown post roof which retains a significant proportion of original fabric;

* Group Value: the building has group value with other historic assets on the High Street.

History

A great part of the town was burnt in a fire of 1807 but there are many C17 and even C16 houses still remaining, principally on the High Street, of which this is an example. The house had a lobby entrance and was re-fronted in the C18.

Details

MATERIALS: the timber-framed house is stuccoed with a steeply pitched roof clad in red, clay tiles with one red-brick ridge stack.

PLAN: square plan with a rear (west) projection.

EXTERIOR: there are two storeys and two bays with flush, eight-over-eight pane sash windows. The slightly off-centre six-panelled door has a ribbed surround with roundels to the corners and a cut bracketed hood.

INTERIOR: it has a crown-post roof braced only to the collar purlin.

Legacy

The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.

Legacy System number:: 158089
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.