18 AND 20, TROOPER ROAD
18 AND 20, TROOPER ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1101792
- Date first listed:
- 14-Mar-1972
- List Entry Name:
- 18 AND 20, TROOPER ROAD
- Statutory Address:
- 18 AND 20, TROOPER ROAD
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1101792
- Date first listed:
- 14-Mar-1972
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 29-May-1986
- List Entry Name:
- 18 AND 20, TROOPER ROAD
- Statutory Address 1:
- 18 AND 20, TROOPER 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:
- 18 AND 20, TROOPER ROAD
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Hertfordshire
- District:
- Dacorum (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Aldbury
- National Grid Reference:
- SP 96469 12383
Details
ALDBURY TROOPER ROAD SP 9612 (West side) 12/31 Nos. 18, and 20 14.3.72 (Formerly listed as Nos 16 and 18 and Nos 20 and 22) GV II House and barn, now 2 houses. Circa 1500 open hall house with jettied S block, late C16 chimney at junction of blocks and inserted floor in hall, C17 fireplace in hall and barn to N end, early C18 S block brick front and barn heightened and floored, C19 divided into 3 houses and shop (Nos. 16, 18, 20 and 22), combined in later C20. Timber frame on brick sill in N part exposed with painted brick infill above painted brick ground floor. Plum brick E front with red brick dressings to S part, and red tilehanging to S gable. Steep red tile roofs. A long 2-storeys group facing E. The N part (18) 4 windows long with 2 plank doors in heavy frames. Casement and swivel windows with segmental arches to ground floor. 2-flue N external gable C18/C19 chimney. Large internal S end chimney partly built in former cross-passage of former open hall forming a lobby entrance. S part (20) has a formal brick front with floor band and 2 windows to each floor. Blue brick header back to recess over central door. Flush 3-light casement windows with flat red brick gauged arches. Ground floor RH window restored 2-panel door. Interior has exposed framework indicating S block formerly jettied and to the entrance a new central lobby formed in C18 cut out of partition separating original 2 unheated rooms. Position of stair by present stair at N probably on site of the late C16 one. Over ground floor fireplace a late C16 wall painting horizontally divided with a mirrored pattern of a formal symmetrical floral design of large scale. C17 ground floor fireplace on N of stack (added or rebuilt then) has elaborate stops to chamfered lintel and initials I H separated by a device, with date above '16?7'. (RCHM Typescript: Davis(1980) No. 28).
Listing NGR: SP9646912383
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 355668
- 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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