53, 53A, 55, HIGH STREET
53, 53A, 55, HIGH STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1101312
- Date first listed:
- 22-Feb-1967
- List Entry Name:
- 53, 53A, 55, HIGH STREET
- Statutory Address:
- 53, 53A, 55, HIGH STREET
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1101312
- Date first listed:
- 22-Feb-1967
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 06-Jul-1984
- List Entry Name:
- 53, 53A, 55, HIGH STREET
- Statutory Address 1:
- 53, 53A, 55, 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:
- 53, 53A, 55, 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:
- TL 36205 29522
Details
TL 3629 BUNTINGFORD HIGH STREET (west side)
7/51 Nos 53, 53A, 55 (formerly listed as Nos 53 and 55) 22.2.67
GV II
House, now 2 shops and a house. C17 or earlier, front altered in 2 stages in C18, C19 shop front to No 53, C20 recessed shopfront to No 55. Timber frame plastered with steep old red tile roofs. A large 2-storeys, U-plan group with street range facing E. Rear wing at SW (No 53A) entered from a narrow passage from the street through the street range, and another wing at NW. Front in 2 parts. S part (No 53) has 3 upper windows under a bold eaves cornice. Square-headed flush box sash windows with moulded architrave and 6/6 panes. Good early C19 shopfront with paired pilasters, full entablature, central double glazed doors, and shop windows in many places. N part (No 55) has three upper windows under same bold cornice. Segmental headed sashes similar to No 53 but with keystones. Shopfront recessed behind 2 iron posts under a simple fascia. Central double glazed doors and shop windows of many panes over brick stallriser. Front range has had a central chimney removed from a position a third from S end. Internal gable chimneys to each end. (RCHM (1911)140 No 15).
Listing NGR: TL3619229527
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 159791
- 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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