49 AND 51, HIGH STREET
49 AND 51, HIGH STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1101311
- Date first listed:
- 22-Feb-1967
- List Entry Name:
- 49 AND 51, HIGH STREET
- Statutory Address:
- 49 AND 51, HIGH STREET
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1101311
- Date first listed:
- 22-Feb-1967
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 06-Jul-1984
- List Entry Name:
- 49 AND 51, HIGH STREET
- Statutory Address 1:
- 49 AND 51, 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.
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:
- 49 AND 51, HIGH STREET
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Hertfordshire
- District:
- East Hertfordshire (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Buntingford
- National Grid Reference:
- TL3621629505
Details
TL 3629
7/50
BUNTINGFORD
HIGH STREET (west side)
Nos 49, and 51
(formerly listed as No 49, No51 (Manchester House)
22.2.67
GV
II
House, now 2 shops. C16 or earlier, front altered c1741 (date on
rainwater head noted by RCHM c1910), and in C19. Timber frame
roughcast, on upper part of front plaster lined as ashlar, dark
weatherboarding on N wall of carriageway. Steep old red tile
roofs. A long 2-storeys L-shaped building, jettied to the street
and with a carriageway through to the rear. Triple division of
front with higher jetty in centre with 3 3-light flush mullioned
and transomed windows over. Lower-jettied parts at each end with
2 tall segmental headed flush box sash windows with keystones to
moulded architraves below wide plastered eaves soffit. Fine wide
moulded Tudor arch with carved spandrels to carriageway. C19
shopfront to left with central entrance, fascia and arched headed
lights in windows. Early C20 shop window to S end: 2
rectangular small shop windows above continuous sill at N end.
Rear wing weatherboarded above plastered Ground floors. Long 2-
storeys white weatherboarded range behind No 49. Side-purlin 2
storeys gabled NW wing to No 51 linked to timber-frame, brick
nogged, slated hipped granary. C18 rear wing in angle beyond
stair tower. Early C18 projecting S gable chimney with tumbled
offsets. Heavy moulded beams over central part of Ground floor.
(RCHM (1911)140 No 14).
Listing NGR: TL3621629505
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 159790
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Other
Inventory of the Historical Monuments of Hertfordshire, (1910)
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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