SHIPS TIMBERS

Overview

Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1102303
Date first listed:
24-Jan-1984
Statutory Address:
SHIPS TIMBERS, 30, GREEN END

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Location

Statutory Address:
SHIPS TIMBERS, 30, GREEN END

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 39380 25337

Details

Braughing village TL 3925 BRAUGHING GREEN END (east side)

9/9 No 30 (Ships Timbers) -

GV II

House. C16 or earlier open hall house with N crosswing. Hall range built with 2 storeys and central chimney early C17. Timber frame roughcast. Plastered brickwork in N wall. Steep old red tile roof. 3-unit plan with cross-passage next N service wing and very large central chimeny between parlour at S and the hall in the middle. Service rooms axially divided and one hollow- chamfered, 4-centred arched headed, doorway survives in the passage. The upper floor wall has heavy tension braces, and a heavy knee-brace to the central tie-beam. The C17 rebuilt hall range has long straight tension braces, jowled posts with long straight braces to tie beams, heavy chamfered floor beams running across the building and having elaborate ogee and stepped-bar stops. There is a brick 4-centred arched chamfered fireplace to the chamber over the parlour. W front to road of 2-storeys with 3 irregularly spaced windows. 2-light flush casement windows. Small similar windows between on upper floor. Door in lean-to porch 1/3 from N. Central chimney 1/3 from S end. Rear stair turret behind chimney.

Listing NGR: TL3938025337

Legacy

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

Legacy System number:
161212
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

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Date: 28 Jun 2001
Reference: IOE01/02892/05
Rights: Copyright IoE Mr John Harris. Source Historic England Archive
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