THE AXE AND COMPASSES PUBLIC HOUSE

List Entry Summary

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

Name: THE AXE AND COMPASSES PUBLIC HOUSE

List entry Number: 1102279

Location

THE AXE AND COMPASSES PUBLIC HOUSE, 28, THE STREET

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

County: Hertfordshire

District: East Hertfordshire

District Type: District Authority

Parish: Braughing

National Park: Not applicable to this List entry.

Grade: II

Date first listed: 24-Jan-1984

Date of most recent amendment: Not applicable to this List entry.

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Legacy System: LBS

UID: 161254

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Details

Braughing village TL 3925 BRAUGHING THE STREET (east side)

9/48 No 28 (The Axe and Compasses PH) -

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

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National Grid Reference: TL 39780 25204

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