Priory Row
1-7 PRIORY ROW, HIGH STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1101954
- Date first listed:
- 19-Sept-1984
- List Entry Name:
- Priory Row
- Statutory Address:
- 1-7 PRIORY ROW, HIGH STREET
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1101954
- Date first listed:
- 19-Sept-1984
- List Entry Name:
- Priory Row
- Statutory Address 1:
- 1-7 PRIORY ROW, HIGH STREET
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:
- 1-7 PRIORY ROW, 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:
- Widford
- National Grid Reference:
- TL4204415935
Details
TL 4215 WIDFORD HIGH STREET
(east side)
Widford village
6/3 Priory Row
Nos 1-7
- (consecutive)
GV II
Block of 7 houses. C18 extended to rear and refronted in early
C19. Timberframed weatherboarded or plastered at rear. Front
and rear of Nos 1, 2, 3 in brickwork colourworked. Old red tiled.
roofs to front and upper part of rear slope and rear wing at Nos '
4 and 5. Rear addition over slate roofs at flatter pitch. No 1 - -
slated entirely. A 2 storeys block of regular small houses facing
W with a hipped roof C18 rear projection in the middle, flanked
by C19 storey, rear extensions. Fronts have 1-window to each
floor of each house. Recessed sash windows with segmental arches
and 6/6 panes. Nos 2 and 3 have the door to the right of the
lower window but the others have it on the left. Steep tiled
gabled roof continuous from No 2 to No 7 with 3 central chimneys
in its length. Each house is differentiated by its tiled timber
porch and door. No 2 has a baluster turned Gothick gabled porch
with chip-carved decoration. No 7 more normal Gothic. The
others each have applied carved console brackets. An attractive
row of historic village houses. The centrepiece of this side of
the High Street, and the Conservation Area.
Listing NGR: TL4204415935
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 160010
- 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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