97 AND 99, HIGH STREET

97 AND 99, HIGH STREET

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Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1101207
Date first listed:
19-Mar-1987
List Entry Name:
97 AND 99, HIGH STREET
Statutory Address:
97 AND 99, HIGH STREET
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Official list entry

Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1101207
Date first listed:
19-Mar-1987
List Entry Name:
97 AND 99, HIGH STREET
Statutory Address 1:
97 AND 99, 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.

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Corrections and minor amendments

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.

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Corrections and minor amendments

Location

Statutory Address:
97 AND 99, HIGH STREET

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

County:
Hertfordshire
District:
Dacorum (District Authority)
Parish:
Markyate
National Grid Reference:
TL 06158 16424

Details

MARWATE HIGH STREET TL 0616 (East side) 8/162 Nos. 97, and 99 - GV II

House, now 2 commercial properties. C17 or earlier, C18 brick front, C19 shopfronts. Timber frame exposed in rear wing and N gable of No. 97, red brick infill and painted brick ground floor at rear, chequered red and blue brick front, roughcast LH part, red tilehung upper part to N extension of rear wing. Steep old red tile roofs, front eaves raised, slated N extension and rear outshut. An L-shaped, 2-storeys building on street front facing W, with 1 1/2-storeys N extension to NE rear wing. Large internal chimney a third from S end and a chimney at the junction with the rear wing. 5-windows long W front has transomed flush wooden casement windows to 1st floor under segmental arches. Shopfronts undistinguished. Old 2-lights and 3-lights casement windows on S face of rear wing. Clasped-purlin roof structure of front range exposed in N gable with end rafter of much steeper front slope. The stepping-out of the frontage suggests the building had a front jetty, subsequently underbuilt.

Listing NGR: TL0615816424

Legacy

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

Legacy System number:
157941
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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