37 and 39 Mill Street

37 and 39, Mill Street

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Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1102719
Date first listed:
27-May-1968
List Entry Name:
37 and 39 Mill Street
Statutory Address:
37 and 39, Mill Street
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Official list entry

Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1102719
Date first listed:
27-May-1968
Date of most recent amendment:
19-Nov-1984
List Entry Name:
37 and 39 Mill Street
Statutory Address 1:
37 and 39, Mill Street

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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.

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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.

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Location

Statutory Address:
37 and 39, Mill Street

The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.

County:
Hertfordshire
District:
North Hertfordshire (District Authority)
Parish:
Ashwell
National Grid Reference:
TL 26699 39895

Details

This list entry was subject to a Minor Amendment on 3 September 2021 to remove superfluous amendment details and to reformat the text to current standards

TL 2639
8/53

ASHWELL
Ashwell
MILL STREET (West side)
Nos 37 and 39

(Formerly listed as Nos. 37, 39 and 41, previously listed as block of three cottages C70 yards north of the Schoolmaster's House)

27.5.68

GV
II

Range of houses, the north end (Nos. 39 and 41) a late C15 or early C16 hall house. Early C17 south extension. 1762 date on hall cross wing. Timber frame. Cemented walls with C20 pargetting. Painted brick base. Fish scale and plain tile roof. Two storeys on south; one storey and attics on north. The two-storey range has five C18 two-light leaded casements, the gabled cross wing with a three-light similar casement to each floor. North part is one window, the ground floor with a C17-18 five-light leaded casement and the attic with a C17 two-light gabled dormer. The cross wing immediately to south has the upper floor jettied on plain joists and curved brackets. C17 red brick ridge chimney stack abutting on north was inserted into cross passage of former hall. South block has two rebuilt ridge stacks. Internally the hall on north has a fireplace with clunch jambs and timber lintel. Cross wing fireplace is wholly of clunch with a depressed four-centre head. Both hall range and wing have clasped purlin roof.

(RCHM Typescript).

Listing NGR: TL2669939895

Legacy

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Legacy System number:
162184
Legacy System:
LBS

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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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