The Old Clock Tower and Number 63
THE OLD CLOCK TOWER AND NUMBER 63, 63, HIGH STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1101314
- Date first listed:
- 19-Oct-1951
- List Entry Name:
- The Old Clock Tower and Number 63
- Statutory Address:
- THE OLD CLOCK TOWER AND NUMBER 63, 63, HIGH STREET
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1101314
- Date first listed:
- 19-Oct-1951
- List Entry Name:
- The Old Clock Tower and Number 63
- Statutory Address 1:
- THE OLD CLOCK TOWER AND NUMBER 63, 63, 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:
- THE OLD CLOCK TOWER AND NUMBER 63, 63, 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:
- TL3618129577
Details
TL 3629
7/54
BUNTINGFORD
HIGH STREET (west side)
The Old Clock Tower and No 63
19.10.51
-
GV
II
Clockhouse over footway, and adjoining Inn, now offices.
Clockhouse said to be C16, restored in C19. Supported at N on
mid C19 Inn. Clockhouse timber framed roughcast, rear and sides
of turret weatherboarded and louvred. Old red tile roofs. A
square gabled turret with clockface framed on E face (single
hand) under a pointed louvred opening framed with square head in
apex of steep gable with frilly bargeboard surmounted by a pole
and windvane. The turret rises from the pitched roof of a
bridge-building high over the passageway with a small-paned fixed
window on E. No 63 has a high-level loft connecting with the
rear of the bridge building. Polychrome brick decoration to grey
brick inn formerly The Angel Inn. A 2 storeys, slate roofed, L-
plan building facing E. Symmetrical front with 3 upper pointed
windows linked by blind arcade, chamfered brick floor band with
name engraved in Lombardic capitals in stone inset over central
round arched door with 2 stepped orders. Flanking triple round-
arched windows with cast iron columns replacing mullions.
Chamfered plinth. Large decorative wrought iron bracket for inn
sign. Ornamental cresting to roof ridge. Grey gault brick
chimneys with grouped octagonal shafts and red brick caps and
bases. (RCHM (1911) 140 No 16).
Listing NGR: TL3618129577
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 159794
- 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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