THE AXE AND COMPASSES PUBLIC HOUSE
Overview
Heritage Category: Listed Building
Grade: II
List Entry Number: 1102279
Date first listed: 24-Jan-1984
Statutory Address: THE AXE AND COMPASSES PUBLIC HOUSE, 28, THE STREET
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Location
Statutory Address: THE AXE AND COMPASSES PUBLIC HOUSE, 28, THE STREET
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 39780 25204
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History
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Details
Braughing village
TL 3925 BRAUGHING THE STREET
(east side)
9/48 No 28
(The Axe and Compasses PH)
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GV II
House, now a public house. C16 S wing, early C17 main range.
Timber frame roughcast on high brick plinth. Steep old red tile
roof hipped at S end, half-hipped at N. 3 unit central chimney
plan house facing W incorporating earlier crosswing at S
projecting only to rear. 2 storeys, 4 windows long, with a 3-
light flush casement window to 1st floor at N end and 3 flush box
sash windows with 8/8 panes. Door up 4 steps has 2 margin-light
sash windows to right and a canted bay window to left with 2
casement windows to N part beyond. 4-panel half-glazed door.
Lean-to at N end plastered and tiled. External gable chimney at
N end and gable chimney to E end of crosswing at S. Interior has
open fireplaces, chamfered axial beams with hollow and bar stop,
C17 moulded plank door to stair, and smoke blackened rafters
reused in roof of main range. Name possibly from meetings of
Worshipful Co. of Carpenters c1800.
Listing NGR: TL3978025204
Legacy
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Legacy System number: 161254
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.
End of official listing