2, HIGH STREET
2, HIGH STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1102599
- Date first listed:
- 24-Jul-1973
- List Entry Name:
- 2, HIGH STREET
- Statutory Address:
- 2, HIGH STREET
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1102599
- Date first listed:
- 24-Jul-1973
- List Entry Name:
- 2, HIGH STREET
- Statutory Address 1:
- 2, HIGH STREET
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:
- 2, HIGH STREET
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Hertfordshire
- District:
- North Hertfordshire (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Barkway
- National Grid Reference:
- TL 38466 35930
Details
BARKWAY HIGH STREET TL 3835 (West side) Barkway
9/38 No. 2
24.7.73
- II*
House. c.1500, smoke hood inserted in late C16, stack and floor in early C17. Extended in C18, restored 1978. Timber frame on brick base, part exposed, largely plastered. Tiled roofs. 3 bay end hall house, storeyed bay with jettied gable end towards road, extended by two 1 bay additions to rear. Now all 2 storeys. Narrow gable end to road has exposed framing, close studding, passing tension braces. Jetty on 3 curved braces. Jowled posts, cambered tie beam, struts to collar with end of collar purlin exposed. Inserted leaded lights, bargeboards. 2 and 3 light C20 flush frame casements on returns. Between 2 original hall bays behind storeyed front bay is a ridge stack, cap rebuilt. Right return has catslide roof over early lean-to outshut behind 2 hall bays. First bay added to rear has a lower ridge to a gambrel roof with a C20 entrance porch on left return. Further bay to rear has a shallower pitch to roof. Ridge stack between 2 added bays. Second entrance to rear. Interior: late C16 timber framed smoke hood survives with original panel framing, mud and straw infill and blackened interior, later brick stack inserted within smoke hood. Crown post roof, soot blackened rafters. C17 stop chamfered bearer and joists inserted in hall. (Pevsner 1977: Hertfordshire Countryside, vol.33, 229, May 1978, p.35: RCHM Typescript).
Listing NGR: TL3846635930
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 162492
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Pevsner, N, Cherry, B, The Buildings of England: Hertfordshire, (1977)
Hertfordshire Countryside in May, Vol. 33, (1978), 35
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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