The Old Village Hall
THE OLD VILLAGE HALL, 38, HIGH STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1103263
- Date first listed:
- 27-May-1968
- List Entry Name:
- The Old Village Hall
- Statutory Address:
- THE OLD VILLAGE HALL, 38, HIGH STREET
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1103263
- Date first listed:
- 27-May-1968
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 08-Feb-1988
- List Entry Name:
- The Old Village Hall
- Statutory Address 1:
- THE OLD VILLAGE HALL, 38, 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:
- THE OLD VILLAGE HALL, 38, 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:
- TL1856921093
Details
TL 1821
12/142
27.5.68
ST PAUL'S WALDEN
HIGH STREET
(North side)
Whitwell
No. 38
(The Old Village Hall also formerly listed as The Old Cottage)
GV
II
House, sometime the village hall. C17. Altered in C18 and C19. Timber
frame exposed on upper floor with plastered panels, red brick to ground
floor, and steep old red tile roof. A 1½-storeys house, set below road
level, facing S. 3 structural bays, the E bay narrower with 3 instead of
4 panels. Large external W gable chimney and smaller and later internal
E gable chimney. Front has 2 old gabled dormer at the eaves with their
gable triangles projecting to shelter the window with shaped brackets at
the ends. 3-lights lattice leaded casements. In brick ground floor 2
4-lights lattice leaded casements, metal opening lights and external
shutters. Framing of front has convex curved tension braces. (RCHM
(1911)197).
Listing NGR: TL1856921093
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 162934
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Other
Inventory of the Historical Monuments of Hertfordshire, (1910)
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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