55, WEST STREET
55, WEST STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1103201
- Date first listed:
- 24-Oct-1988
- List Entry Name:
- 55, WEST STREET
- Statutory Address:
- 55, WEST STREET
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1103201
- Date first listed:
- 24-Oct-1988
- List Entry Name:
- 55, WEST STREET
- Statutory Address 1:
- 55, WEST STREET
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:
- 55, WEST STREET
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Hertfordshire
- District:
- North Hertfordshire (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Lilley
- National Grid Reference:
- TL 11968 26220
Details
LILLEY WEST STREET TL 1126 (East side)
11/75 No. 55 - - II
House. Late C15/early C16 hall range, late C16/early C17 N wing when stack and floor inserted in hall, C18 single-storey S kitchen extension, a post office in C19. Timber frame on brick sill exposed only on N end, roughcast with steep old red tile roofs. A long 2-storeys and cellar house facing W set back from road with higher 2-storeys N crosswing jettied along its N side. Formerly an open hall with a storied S service end extending over the cross-passage (E doorway in use) and parlour bay at N. Converted to lobby entrance when parlour bay filled by massive internal chimney and N parlour wing added. Large chimney added against jettied N side of wing to serve narrow rear room c.1700, then or later a smithy. W front has gabled wing at N, 3 windows to each floor. Flush 3-lights casement windows small to 1st floor under the eaves, larger to ground floor. Battened door opposite chimney, 3-light casement to each floor of crosswing. Very large S gable chimney to kitchen extension and longer single storey extension set back. Purlin roof and heavy wallplates to kitchen. Jettied N side of crosswing close-studded on ground floor with 3-lights ovolo-moulded window. Bull-nosed joists and similar blocked window to 1st floor with more widely spaced studs. Curved braces mark the 2 bays of crosswing. Large N side chimney in English-bond red brick with crow-steps surviving on E side. Squint-butted scarf in bressumer. Clasped purlin roof with wind-braces to hall range. Intermediate truss 1M from S end of original building. (RCHM Typescript).
Listing NGR: TL1196826220
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 163085
- 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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