160 High Street, Stevenage
160 High Street, Stevenage, Hertfordshire
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1101142
- Date first listed:
- 30-Sept-1976
- List Entry Name:
- 160 High Street, Stevenage
- Statutory Address:
- 160 High Street, Stevenage, Hertfordshire
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1101142
- Date first listed:
- 30-Sept-1976
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 02-Sept-2011
- List Entry Name:
- 160 High Street, Stevenage
- Location Description:
- 160 High Street, Stevenage, Hertfordshire
- Statutory Address 1:
- 160 High Street, Stevenage, Hertfordshire
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:
- 160 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:
- TL2346424729
Summary
Early C19 red-brick house.
Reasons for Designation
160 High Street, Stevenage is designated at Grade II for the following principal reason:
* Architectural interest: it is a good example of a polite, early C19 town house
History
The house was built in the early C19 on the High Street which is notable for the survival of many C17 houses after a great part of the town was burnt in a fire of 1807.
Details
The two-storey house is constructed of red brick with a brick plinth. The pitched roof, clad in red, clay tiles has a moulded ridge stack on the right gable end. The centrally placed six-panelled door has a fanlight under a semi-circular cutter brick arch, and is flanked by two- over-two pane sash windows under cambered cutter arches. There is another window to the right, and three similar windows on the first floor.
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 158091
- 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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