SHIPS TIMBERS

SHIPS TIMBERS, 30, GREEN END

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

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Date:: 2001-06-28
Reference:: IOE01/02892/05
Rights:: © Mr John Harris. Source: Historic England Archive

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1102303
Date first listed:: 24-Jan-1984
List Entry Name:: SHIPS TIMBERS
Statutory Address 1:: SHIPS TIMBERS, 30, GREEN END

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:: 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

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Legacy System number:: 161212
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.