Old Brewery the Brew House
OLD BREWERY, 22, HIGH STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1103262
- Date first listed:
- 27-May-1968
- List Entry Name:
- Old Brewery the Brew House
- Statutory Address:
- OLD BREWERY, 22, HIGH STREET
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1103262
- Date first listed:
- 27-May-1968
- List Entry Name:
- Old Brewery the Brew House
- Statutory Address 1:
- OLD BREWERY, 22, HIGH STREET
- Statutory Address 2:
- THE BREW HOUSE, 24, HIGH 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:
- OLD BREWERY, 22, HIGH STREET
- Statutory Address:
- THE BREW HOUSE, 24, HIGH STREET
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:
- TL 18660 21043
Details
TL 1821 ST PAUL'S WALDEN HIGH STREET (North side) Whitwell
12/140 Nos. 22 (Old Brewery), 27.5.68 and 24 (The Brew House)
GV II
House, now 2 houses. Early C17, renovated early C18 ('1702' carved on beam), top storey and brick front c.1800 when extended to E and divided. Timber frame roughcast, with sandy red brick front, low red brick extension to E and white weatherboarded C20 rear extension. Slate roofs, hipped on house. A 3-cells, lobby-entry, E crosswing plan house facing S, with extra lobby taken out of E side of middle room when E wing extended and divided off as a separate house. Formal brick S front with 3-storeys and moulded cornice below parapet. 3 windows wide. Recessed sash windows with rubbed flat arches and 4/4 panes to 2nd floor, 8/8 panes to 1st floor, and triple sashes at each end of front, 8/8 sash in middle, and 2 re-used early C18 (? 1702) pedimented doorcases to the 6-panel flush-bead doors. Eared architraves and swelled frieze. Large internal chimney a third from W end has 4 diagonally set square shafts concealed by heightening of house. Chamfered axial beam with bar-stop. E extension was used as a straw plait school in the C19. (RCHM Typescript).
Listing NGR: TL1866021043
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 162932
- 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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