Walls, Gates and Piers of An Enclosure at Orchard House Along Roadside and Surrounding the Property

WALLS, GATES AND PIERS OF AN ENCLOSURE AT ORCHARD HOUSE ALONG ROADSIDE AND SURROUNDING THE PROPERTY, ACORN STREET

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Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1101963
Date first listed:
19-Sept-1984
List Entry Name:
Walls, Gates and Piers of An Enclosure at Orchard House Along Roadside and Surrounding the Property
Statutory Address:
WALLS, GATES AND PIERS OF AN ENCLOSURE AT ORCHARD HOUSE ALONG ROADSIDE AND SURROUNDING THE PROPERTY, ACORN STREET

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1101963
Date first listed:
19-Sept-1984
List Entry Name:
Walls, Gates and Piers of An Enclosure at Orchard House Along Roadside and Surrounding the Property
Statutory Address 1:
WALLS, GATES AND PIERS OF AN ENCLOSURE AT ORCHARD HOUSE ALONG ROADSIDE AND SURROUNDING THE PROPERTY, ACORN STREET

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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:
WALLS, GATES AND PIERS OF AN ENCLOSURE AT ORCHARD HOUSE ALONG ROADSIDE AND SURROUNDING THE PROPERTY, ACORN STREET

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

County:
Hertfordshire
District:
East Hertfordshire (District Authority)
Parish:
Hunsdon
National Grid Reference:
TL4167413154

Details

TL 4113
8/15

HUNSDON
ACORN STREET
(east side)
Walls, gates and piers of an enclosure at Orchard House along roadside and surrounding the property

GV
II

Walled enclosure. Late C16. High red brick walled enclosure
formerly a walled garden to Nine Ashes on N. Now encloses
grounds and house not of special interest. Frontage to road in
English bond with diaper of black headers. Upper part rebuilt.
Blocked doorway with timber lintel. Short (2 metres) length of
low projecting plinth. Modern semicircular embayment with gates
and 4 piers for entrance. An historic feature surviving from Sir
Thomas Forster's late C16 house or the older house he altered.
Important element in roadside group with the buildings of Nine
Ashes Farm, on the road to the church and Hunsdon House.

Listing NGR: TL4167413154

Legacy

The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.

Legacy System number:
159936
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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