Kingswell House
KINGSWELL HOUSE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1102478
- Date first listed:
- 08-Feb-1988
- List Entry Name:
- Kingswell House
- Statutory Address:
- KINGSWELL HOUSE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1102478
- Date first listed:
- 08-Feb-1988
- List Entry Name:
- Kingswell House
- Statutory Address 1:
- KINGSWELL HOUSE
The scope of legal protection for listed buildings
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.
The scope of legal protection for listed buildings
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.
Location
- Statutory Address:
- KINGSWELL HOUSE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Hertfordshire
- District:
- North Hertfordshire (District Authority)
- Parish:
- King's Walden
- National Grid Reference:
- TL 15357 24731
Details
TL 12 SE KINGS WALDEN KINGSWELL END (South side)
4/19 Kingswell House
GV II
House. Late C15 open hall house with storeyed E crosswing, floor and stair inserted in hall in late C16. Renovated and SW extension later C20. Timber frame roughcast with steep old red tile roofs. A 2-bays, 1½-storeys, hall range with projecting 2-storeys gabled E crosswing jettied to front (N) with 3 curved brackets. 3-lights dormer window to roof of hall range and entrance next to crosswing beside internal chimney with square shaft above roof. 2 casement windows to each floor of wing and one to ground floor of hall range to W of where roof carried down as porch. Very large C18 external W gable chimney to hall range with 4 tiled offsets. Bow window added to E side of wing. Interior has double-rebated cruciform crown post with 4-ways bracing to hall roof set on arch-braced tie-beam with hollow chamfers to braces. Wing roof clean: hall roof sooted. Inserted floor elaborately moulded with hollow chamfer and roll to each side of axial beam, and similar edge-rolls to soffit of joists. (RCHM Typescript).
Listing NGR: TL1530824708
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 162811
- 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.
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