Waltham Abbey Vicarage
WALTHAM ABBEY VICARAGE, HIGHBRIDGE STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1124127
- Date first listed:
- 03-Feb-1971
- List Entry Name:
- Waltham Abbey Vicarage
- Statutory Address:
- WALTHAM ABBEY VICARAGE, HIGHBRIDGE STREET
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1124127
- Date first listed:
- 03-Feb-1971
- List Entry Name:
- Waltham Abbey Vicarage
- Statutory Address 1:
- WALTHAM ABBEY VICARAGE, HIGHBRIDGE 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:
- WALTHAM ABBEY VICARAGE, HIGHBRIDGE STREET
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Essex
- District:
- Epping Forest (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Waltham Abbey
- National Grid Reference:
- TL 38087 00666
Details
HIGHBRIDGE STREET 1. 1767 Waltham Abbey Vicarage TL 3800 NW 1/1D 3.2.71. II* GV
2. Late C16 or early C17 L-shaped building. 2 storeys and attic, 3 windows. High pitched roof, renewed tiles, gabled at left and with projecting section under gable at right. 1 original and 1 renewed brick chimney. 2 later, flat headed dormers stuccoed walls. Sash windows (some renewed) with glazing bars in near flush, moulded frames. Ground floor windows have old external shutters. Projecting ground-floor section within the L has early C19 entrance porch with square wood columns, cornice hood and trellised side. Door has 2 glazed panels above and rusticated panels below. Reeded architrave. 2 round-headed late C18 windows at back, one, in gabled extension, has patterned radial head which may have been a door fanlight. Joseph Hall, afterwards Bishop of Exeter and Norwich, lived here 16l2-34. Thomas Fuller, cleric and historian, lived here 1649-57. Graded partly for historic interest.
Church or the Holy Cross and St Lawrence, Abbey Gateway, Midnight Chapel and Harolds Bridge, Walls of Abbey and Chapter House, Garden Wall and the Vicarage form a group.
Listing NGR: TL3808700666
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 117633
- 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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