Brambles Wood
BRAMBLES WOOD, BROXBOURNE COMMON
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1101692
- Date first listed:
- 20-Apr-1988
- List Entry Name:
- Brambles Wood
- Statutory Address:
- BRAMBLES WOOD, BROXBOURNE COMMON
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1101692
- Date first listed:
- 20-Apr-1988
- List Entry Name:
- Brambles Wood
- Statutory Address 1:
- BRAMBLES WOOD, BROXBOURNE COMMON
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:
- BRAMBLES WOOD, BROXBOURNE COMMON
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Hertfordshire
- District:
- East Hertfordshire (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Brickendon Liberty
- National Grid Reference:
- TL 34296 07643
Details
TL 30 NW BRICKENDON LIBERTY BROXBOURNE COMMON
3/49 Brambles Wood -
- II
House. C17, extended at ends probably in C18, W wing 1970s. Timber frame on low sill, roughcast, lower extensions dark weatherboarded, steep thatched roof carried down as hips over end extensions. Linked W wing dark weatherboarded with steep pitch hipped red tile roof. A picturesque 1½-storeys house isolated in a clearing, facing S with L-shaped 1½-storeys newer wing linked to W end and extending to S. A 2-cells, internal-chimney, lobby-entry plan with single-storey extension at each end, and small rear extension to W bay. This seems to have been the hall with axial beam supporting exposed joists of floor. Axial joists only in E bay. Winding stair to rear of stack entered from W room. S front has 2 2-lights dormers at eaves, 2 3-lights casement flush windows flanking plank door, and 2-lights casement to each end extension. E one has lattice leaded plate casements. Interior has exposed timbers, long tension braces in walls, clasped-purlin roof, and IL hinges to doors. The central tie-beam now encased in chimney, suggesting chimney (and possibly upper floor) a secondary feature.
Listing NGR: TL3434607568
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 160655
- 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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