2, CAMBRIDGE ROAD
2, CAMBRIDGE ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1101663
- Date first listed:
- 02-Oct-1981
- List Entry Name:
- 2, CAMBRIDGE ROAD
- Statutory Address:
- 2, CAMBRIDGE ROAD
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1101663
- Date first listed:
- 02-Oct-1981
- List Entry Name:
- 2, CAMBRIDGE ROAD
- Statutory Address 1:
- 2, CAMBRIDGE ROAD
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:
- 2, CAMBRIDGE ROAD
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 48218 15180
Details
CAMBRIDGE ROAD 1. 5253 (East Side) No 2 TL 4821 1517:1/1 II GV 2. C18 linked complex formerly Walnut Tree Farm. House refronted and extended in early C19 and linked by outbuildings to barn on E. Farmhouse fronts pavement and is of brick with slate roof gabled. 2 storeys, 3 windows. Rear lateral chimney to NE and internal gable chimney to S. Symmetrical stucco front with parapet. Astylar composition with corner pilasters, plinth, cill band to 1st floor, cornice and blocking course. Door surround of pilasters and block cornice. Eared window surrounds with flat triangles over and also keystones to Gd floor. Sash windows with vertical margin lights. Modern door. C19 single storey yellow stock brick extension to S with slate roof and late C19 shopfront inserted. Good example of urban farmhouse. Complex shown on Tithe Map of 1839. C18, 5-bay timberframed barn weatherboarded over brick base. Projecting bay to E reroofed. Elm timbers. Unusual hybrid roof construction of collar and clasped purlin trusses with king posts with expanded feet halved over collars. Curved braces from unjowled posts. Half-hipped thatch roof replaced by corrugated asbestos about 1946. Now gabled but hip structure remains. Modern wooden windows. Carved on a post 'J..... Burton June 1812'.
Listing NGR: TL4821815180
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 160751
- 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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