TOWN HOUSE (ASHWELL MUSEUM)

TOWN HOUSE (ASHWELL MUSEUM), SWAN STREET

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II*
List Entry Number:: 1102724
Date first listed:: 19-Nov-1984
List Entry Name:: TOWN HOUSE (ASHWELL MUSEUM)
Statutory Address:: TOWN HOUSE (ASHWELL MUSEUM), SWAN STREET

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II*
List Entry Number:: 1102724
Date first listed:: 19-Nov-1984
List Entry Name:: TOWN HOUSE (ASHWELL MUSEUM)
Statutory Address 1:: TOWN HOUSE (ASHWELL MUSEUM), SWAN STREET

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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This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

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:: TOWN HOUSE (ASHWELL MUSEUM), SWAN 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 26687 39681

Details

TL 2639 ASHWELL SWAN STREET (South side) Ashwell 8/66 Town House 9.6.52 (Ashwell Museum)

GV II*

House, now museum. Built c.1500, extended at rear early-mid C19. Restored C20. Exposed timber frame with plaster infill. Plain tile gable end roof. 2 storeys, the upper floor jettied on bull-nose joists and curved brackets. Close-set wide studs. Door on right with 4-centre head. Left of this a pair of casements with renewed arches and mullions. Upper floor has 2 4-light casements with hollow-carved mullions and square leading. E elevation with 1 similar window on ground and first floor. To left of these is a wide C18-19 external chimney stack. Rear section is plastered brick. 3-light Yorkshire casement to upper floor, S side. On W side are single 2-light Yorkshire casements at rear; 2 ground floor mullioned windows at front. Internally the museum shows a crown post roof. Open fireplace. (Scheduled Ancient Monument). (RCHM Typescript).

Listing NGR: TL2668739681

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Legacy System number:: 162197
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.