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
List Entry Name:: 49 AND 51, HIGH STREET
Statutory Address:: 49 AND 51, HIGH STREET

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Date:: 2006-09-20
Reference:: IOE01/15710/27
Rights:: © Mr Peter L. Herring. Source: Historic England Archive

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Official list entry

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

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:: 49 AND 51, HIGH STREET

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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

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Legacy System number:: 159790
Legacy System:: LBS

Sources

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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.