96-98, HIGH STREET
Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1101348
- Date first listed:
- 06-Jul-1984
- Statutory Address:
- 96-98, HIGH STREET
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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:
- TL 36104 29793
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: TL3610429793
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.
End of official listing