BENEDICT

BENEDICT, 4 AND 5, THE SQUARE

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1102276
Date first listed:: 22-Feb-1967
List Entry Name:: BENEDICT
Statutory Address:: BENEDICT, 4 AND 5, THE SQUARE

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Date:: 2001-06-28
Reference:: IOE01/02892/02
Rights:: © Mr John Harris. Source: Historic England Archive

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1102276
Date first listed:: 22-Feb-1967
List Entry Name:: BENEDICT
Statutory Address 1:: BENEDICT, 4 AND 5, THE SQUARE

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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This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

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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Location

Statutory Address:: BENEDICT, 4 AND 5, THE SQUARE

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

County:: Hertfordshire
District:: East Hertfordshire (District Authority)
Parish:: Braughing
National Grid Reference:: TL 39758 25205

Details

Braughing village TL 3925 BRAUGHING THE SQUARE (north side)

9/56 Nos 4, and 5 (Benedict)

22.2.67

GV II

House, now 2 houses. C16, W part altered in late C17, E part largely rebuilt in C18. Timber frame roughcast. One and a half storeys W part thatched above an old red tile slope with 2 gabled tiled dormers. Higher 2 storeys E part (No 5) thatched with half-hip to E end and lower rear wing to NE. Fragmentary remains of a small open-hall house with 2 pairs of posts in No 4 formerly supporting tie-beams which were removed in late C17 when floor and chimney were inserted. They mark either a cross-passage, or a hearth bay. Framing in E wall has heavy curved tension braces with door position at S end, leading into No 5. S elevation to The Square, with central plank door to No 4 flanked by 2-light, flush small-paned casements and similar windows to 2 dormers over. No 5 now has no front door, and irregularly spaced flush casement windows (renewed) on each floor. Tall chimney in front slope roof. (RCHM Typescript).

Listing NGR: TL3975825205

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Legacy System number:: 161247
Legacy System:: LBS

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This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.