Spellers
SPELLERS, ACORN STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1101965
- Date first listed:
- 19-Sept-1984
- List Entry Name:
- Spellers
- Statutory Address:
- SPELLERS, ACORN STREET
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- Date:
- 2002-07-12
- Reference:
- IOE01/07758/34
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1101965
- Date first listed:
- 19-Sept-1984
- List Entry Name:
- Spellers
- Statutory Address 1:
- SPELLERS, ACORN 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:
- SPELLERS, 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:
- TL 41676 13361
Details
TL 4113 HUNSDON ACORN STREET (west side)
8/3 Spellers
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GV II
House. Early C19. Brick colourwashed with plastered upper floor. Gabled red tiled roof. 2 storeys and attic 3-window house in the style of a C17 farmhouse facing E. Wide front jetty on heavy carved corner brackets with moulded wooden band and plastered soffit. 2-light casement windows. Square, single storey roughcast flat-topped enclosed porch with moulded wooden cornice and'half.-glazed double doors. Single storey canted bay window with French doors at S end. 2 tall internal red brick chimneys rising through ridge with ornamental tile cresting. Symmetrical N gable with moulded wooden band carried across, canted small bay with tiled roof, 3-light window on 1st floor and 2-light in apex of gable. 2 storeys flat-roofed brick rear extension with trellis-sided open porch with steep gabled tiled roof and cusped bargeboards. An interesting C19 farmhouse, little-altered. Part of a picturesque group with Spellers Cottages.
Listing NGR: TL4167613361
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 159939
- 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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