64, HIGH STREET

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1101214
Date first listed:: 26-Jan-1967
List Entry Name:: 64, HIGH STREET
Statutory Address:: 64, HIGH STREET

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1101214
Date first listed:: 26-Jan-1967
List Entry Name:: 64, HIGH STREET
Statutory Address 1:: 64, HIGH STREET

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.

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Location

Statutory Address:: 64, HIGH STREET

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County:: Hertfordshire
District:: Dacorum (District Authority)
Parish:: Markyate
National Grid Reference:: TL 06144 16401

Details

MARKYATE HIGH STREET TL 0616 (West side) 8/174 No. 64 26.1.67

GV II

Inn, now a private house. Late C16, fragmentary wallpaintings c,1600, internal alterations and insertion of attic floor in C18, refronted c.1820. Timber frame on high red brick sill, infilled with red brick on ground floor, exposed with painted or plastered brick panels on 1st floor at rear and in rear wing. Dark weatherboarded gable triangle to rear wing. Front wall and parapet stuccoed with deep chanelled rustication. Steep old red tile roofs. A large, L-plan, 2-storeys, cellar and former attics block, facing E, with carriageway through N end of front range, and formerly a stair turret in the angle of the wings. Stucco E front symmetrical about projecting bay with door in round-headed doorway up 4 steps and small round-headed window over. 2 sash windows with plate glass on each floor on each side of centre. Rear has high red brick sill supporting timber frame with bay-posts exposed to full height. Red brick infill panels on ground floor, painted brick infill to 1st floor between storey-height studs. Similar 2-bays, 2-storeys rear wing with exposed timbers on both side-walls and tilehung W gable triangle. Single-storey W extension at end. Weatherboarded infill to gable at roof level on front range where the full-height original stair tower has been reduced to a single-storey rear porch with access to cellar through floor flap. Casement windows generally, with a 2-light ovolo moulded casement on upper floor of rear wing. Interior shows front range to have 4 structural bays, the north bay occupied by the carriageway with a large C17 chimney backing onto it. This serves a large ground floor room with sophisticated early C17 classical Totternhoe stone fireplace with rectangular plaster conical hood, tapering stone pilasters full entablature, moulded shelf, and centre block, ovolo moulded cross-beam and one square surviving of a complete scheme of wall paintings. Traces on 2 other walls. The panel has a fawn or satyr amid unusually free, large-scale scrolling with classical foliage and grotesques. Traces of frieze carried onto beam and design continued over timber studs. Black on white with yellow/green background, formerly limewashed over. Late C16 style (report by E Clive Rouse in RCHM records). There is similar wallpainting in situ on the central stud of N end wall in attic with stylised foliage in black on white with border and yellow flowers. Similar painted timbers said to be re-used as floor joists to attic now concealed, which was probably inserted in C18. Below the painted panel on ground floor is a small diamond-mullioned 3-light oak window intended as a borrowed light for the former cellar stair. There is an C18 arched opening to the former stair on rear wall in-line with now blocked front door to street. The S front room has an ovolo-moulded crossbeam supporting the chamfered axial beams which run through this range, and a corner fireplace to the C18 chimney inserted in the SE corner. The 4-bays roof of the front range seems to continue to N into No. 62. Clasped-purlin, collar and tie-beam trusses, and long curved wind-braces. The 2-bays rear wing a kitchen and service wing with large internal chimney emerging to S of roof ridge. Stack appears to have replaced a timber framed original jointed to framed S wall. N jamb a re-used ceiling beam. Jowled posts, long curved braces to tie-beam, and straight braces to wall-plates. These have a junction just beyond the chimney suggesting the W end an extension, C18 iron grate on 1st floor and 2-panel ovolo moulded doors with H hinges. Main stair said to have been moved in 1940 to Woodhill Park House nearby. Inn said to have had The Swan as its name. " '

Listing NGR: TL0614416401

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Legacy System number:: 157953
Legacy System:: LBS

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This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.