4, 6 and 8 High Street
4, 6 and 8 High Street, Whitwell, Hitchin, SG4 8AG
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1103257
- Date first listed:
- 01-Aug-1978
- List Entry Name:
- 4, 6 and 8 High Street
- Statutory Address:
- 4, 6 and 8 High Street, Whitwell, Hitchin, SG4 8AG
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1103257
- Date first listed:
- 01-Aug-1978
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 08-Feb-1988
- List Entry Name:
- 4, 6 and 8 High Street
- Statutory Address 1:
- 4, 6 and 8 High Street, Whitwell, Hitchin, SG4 8AG
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:
- 4, 6 and 8 High Street, Whitwell, Hitchin, SG4 8AG
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Hertfordshire
- District:
- North Hertfordshire (District Authority)
- Parish:
- St. Paul's Walden
- National Grid Reference:
- TL1880120965
Details
This list entry was subject to a Minor Amendment on 25 November 2022 to amend the name and address, and reformat the text to current standards
TL 12 SE
4/135
ST PAUL'S WALDEN
Whitwell
HIGH STREET (North side)
Nos 4, 6 and 8
(Formerly listed as Nos. 2, and 4, previously listed as Nos 4 to 12 (even)
1.8.78
GV
II
House, sometime four houses, now two houses. C17 or earlier, South crosswing rebuilt in brick in late C18. Timber frame roughcast with red brick casing to ground floor. South wing in red and blue brick in Flemish-bond. Steep old red tile roofs, hipped on South wing. An L-shaped two-storeys house facing East with higher South crosswing extending to rear (West). Main range has four small two-lights casement windows front on first floor, large two-light windows to ground floor and several blocked doors. Large internal chimney a quarter from the crosswing in front roofslope has pilaster strips. South wing has a corbelled eaves band with projecting headers, three windows to ground floor and two to first floor with central recess and Phoenix fire insurance mark. Casement windows. Former central door now a window.
Listing NGR: TL1880120965
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 162927
- 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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