Elm House
ELM HOUSE, WELL HEAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1102622
- Date first listed:
- 09-Jun-1952
- List Entry Name:
- Elm House
- Statutory Address:
- ELM HOUSE, WELL HEAD
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1102622
- Date first listed:
- 09-Jun-1952
- List Entry Name:
- Elm House
- Statutory Address 1:
- ELM HOUSE, WELL HEAD
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:
- ELM HOUSE, WELL HEAD
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 33510 37289
Details
THERFIELD WELL HEAD TL 3337 (North side) Therfield 9/129 Elm House 9.6.52 II House. Early C16, altered and extended early C18, altered C19 and C20. Timber frame, largely rendered with some weatherboarding and brick casing. Tiled roofs with some slate. Original 5 window lobby entry range with parallel later 4 window range to rear. All 2 storeys. Original range now faces garden. Central entrance, 3 light small pane flush frame casements, ground floor right small bay window, above entrance a single light casement. Coved eaves. Central on ridge a large original stack with raised cap. Right end extruded stack. Left end weatherboarded first floor. Taller later block is now entrance front. Ground floor: wide projecting C20 porch to centre, panelled door in pedimented doorcase with side lights. Flush frame tripartite sashes in outer bays. First floor: 2 glazing bar sashes to centre, outer tripartite sashes, dentilled eaves. Slate to front only of steeply pitched roof. End stacks. Left end: C19 brick cladding around originally extruded stack with tumbled in brick offsets. Right end which does not extend as far as earlier range, has first floor weatherboarding, extruded stack, ground floor lean-to outshut with pantiles. Interior: ground floor moulded binding beams, panelled dining room with dentilled cornice, two 4 centred arched fireplaces on first floor. (RCHM 1910).
Listing NGR: TL3351037289
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 162452
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Other
Inventory of the Historical Monuments of Hertfordshire, (1910)
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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