129, SHEERING MILL LANE

129, SHEERING MILL LANE

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Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1101623
Date first listed:
02-Oct-1981
List Entry Name:
129, SHEERING MILL LANE
Statutory Address:
129, SHEERING MILL LANE
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Official list entry

Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1101623
Date first listed:
02-Oct-1981
List Entry Name:
129, SHEERING MILL LANE
Statutory Address 1:
129, SHEERING MILL LANE

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.

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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.

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Corrections and minor amendments

Location

Statutory Address:
129, SHEERING MILL LANE

The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.

County:
Hertfordshire
District:
East Hertfordshire (District Authority)
Parish:
Sawbridgeworth
National Grid Reference:
TL 48470 14677

Details

SHEERING MILL LANE 1. 5253 (South Side) TL 4846 1467:3/73 No 129 II GV 2. 1851 enlarged 1870 (WEA III (1970) 5). White gault brick and slate roof. Former National School now in domestic use. 1 1/2 storey Gothic building at right angle to road with symmetrical front to E and single storey rear wing extension. Wide overhanging eaves carried on trefoil pierced wooden brackets. E front has central wooden door with 2 vertical panels and heavy frame under gabled slated hood on double scrolled wooden brackets, Gd floor windows are square headed under brick hood moulds with 2 light cast iron mullioned and transomed frames and cast iron diamond paned lattices. 2 windows in gable to road. Gd floor as E front. Upper similar without transom. 2 symmetrical rear lateral chimneys. 1 window in rear wing. Picturesque and well-preserved small early school building in C19 Gothic.

Listing NGR: TL4847014677

Legacy

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Legacy System number:
160850
Legacy System:
LBS

Sources

Books and journals
The Story of Sawbridgeworth in A Century of Village Schooling, Vol. 3, (1970)

Legal

This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.

Ordnance survey map of 129, SHEERING MILL LANE

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