96-98, HIGH STREET
96-98, HIGH STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1101348
- Date first listed:
- 06-Jul-1984
- List Entry Name:
- 96-98, HIGH STREET
- Statutory Address:
- 96-98, HIGH STREET
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1101348
- Date first listed:
- 06-Jul-1984
- List Entry Name:
- 96-98, HIGH STREET
- Statutory Address 1:
- 96-98, 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:
- 96-98, 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:
- TL3609729794
Details
TL 3629
7/33
BUNTINGFORD,
HIGH STREET (east side),
Nos. 96-98
(Formerly listed as No 96 High Street)
GV II
House. Circa 1500, hall heightened in mid C17, refronted and
gables altered in C19. Timber frame on stuccoed sill, roughcast
with weatherboarded 1st floor at rear and apron remaining at N
end. Very steep old red tile hipped roof, with thatched rear
wing at SE. An open-hall house alongside road built with 2-bay
hall flanked by narrow cross-wings of 2-bays. S wing originally
axially divided on Ground floor for pantry and buttery, and later
extended to rear. W front has 3 divisions with irregular
fenestration of flush casement windows. Large central chimney a
third from S end rises through front slope of roof. Later
chimney to parlour (N) end. Door at RH end of front has a flat
hood on shaped brackets, and a similar door at N. Interior has
crown-post roof surviving in S wing, unusual early mouldings in
the hall, chamfered arched braces rising through the inserted
floor of chamfered and stopped joists and beams, unusually of
different construction in each bay of the hall. Jettied thatched
wing with external lateral chimney. (RCHM Typescript).
Listing NGR: TL3609729794
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 159775
- Legacy System:
- LBS
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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