Friars Grange
FRIARS GRANGE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1102663
- Date first listed:
- 29-Jan-1986
- List Entry Name:
- Friars Grange
- Statutory Address:
- FRIARS GRANGE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1102663
- Date first listed:
- 29-Jan-1986
- List Entry Name:
- Friars Grange
- Statutory Address 1:
- FRIARS GRANGE
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:
- FRIARS GRANGE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Hertfordshire
- District:
- North Hertfordshire (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Rushden
- National Grid Reference:
- TL 31782 32874
Details
RUSHDEN FRIARS GRANGE TL 33 SW 7/23 Friars Grange II House. Early to mid C16 origins, C18 additions. Remodelled in C19, altered in C20. Timber frame, all roughcast and weatherboarded. Slate roofs. 2 bay 2 storey C16 block perhaps a wing of a larger house, now disappeared. Narrower and lower 1 storey and attic 3 bay extension attached to a weatherboarded former outbuilding. Original block has a ground floor C20 rectangular bay projecting to front, C20 flush frame casements. Inserted cross axial ridge stack on shallow pitched C19 roof. 3 bay range to left with 3 small gables, cross axial stack. To rear: original block jettied with exposed joists, largely underbuilt. 2 gables on 3 bay addition, right bay of which projects slightly with sham timber framing. Entrance to left of this range. Entrance with C20 bracketed hood in outbuilding to right, gable end of which has another entrance. Interior: quirked wave moulded cross axial bearer with later chamfered axial bearers in C16 bays, exposed jowled posts of large scantling.
Listing NGR: TL3178232874
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 162346
- 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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