The Limes
THE LIMES, CHURCH LANE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1102614
- Date first listed:
- 09-Jun-1952
- List Entry Name:
- The Limes
- Statutory Address:
- THE LIMES, CHURCH LANE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1102614
- Date first listed:
- 09-Jun-1952
- List Entry Name:
- The Limes
- Statutory Address 1:
- THE LIMES, CHURCH LANE
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:
- THE LIMES, CHURCH LANE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Hertfordshire
- District:
- North Hertfordshire (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Therfield
- National Grid Reference:
- TL 33596 37117
Details
THERFIELD CHURCH LANE TL 3337 (South side) Therfield 9/105 The Limes 9.6.52 II
House. Late C16, extended C17. Extended and altered c.1800 and later C19. Timber frame, rendered. Red brick additions with some weather- boarding. Tiled roofs. Lobby entry 5 bay front range. 2 storeys. Entrance in second bay from right in later projecting gabled porch. Right bay has a full height canted bay with sashes. Ground floor canted bay to left of porch, further left an entrance with a bracketed hood and a 2 light casement. First floor centre and left 3 flush frame glazing bar sashes. To left of centre an original small 2 light timber ovolo moulded mullioned window frame. Right end is roughcast with sashes, steeply pitched roof. To rear early C19 parallel red brick range. 3 bays to garden. Recessed central entrance with a later bracketed hood, flanking and first floor recessed glazing bar sashes with cambered heads. End stacks. To right and slightly set back from this block is a later C19 addition filling out a large rectangle. Ground floor brick with French doors and a 2 light casement. First floor weatherboarded with 3 flush frame glazing bar sashes. Slightly lower ridge than on c.1800 block. Projects further to end than original block. Large stack in valley between original block and late C19 block. Attached at left end from front are outbuildings, former stabling, altered in C20. Interior: large scantling to exposed frame, stop chamfered fireplace lintels, bearers and joists, exposed mullioned window frames. C18 panelled room to right on ground floor with moulded cornice. First floor chamfered brick fireplace. (Pevsner 1977).
Listing NGR: TL3359637117
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 162428
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Pevsner, N, Cherry, B, The Buildings of England: Hertfordshire, (1977)
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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