The Three Blackbirds Public House
THE THREE BLACKBIRDS PUBLIC HOUSE, HIGH STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1172731
- Date first listed:
- 19-Mar-1987
- List Entry Name:
- The Three Blackbirds Public House
- Statutory Address:
- THE THREE BLACKBIRDS PUBLIC HOUSE, HIGH STREET
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- Reference:
- IOE01/05066/29
- Rights:
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1172731
- Date first listed:
- 19-Mar-1987
- List Entry Name:
- The Three Blackbirds Public House
- Statutory Address 1:
- THE THREE BLACKBIRDS PUBLIC HOUSE, 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 THREE BLACKBIRDS PUBLIC HOUSE, HIGH STREET
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Hertfordshire
- District:
- Dacorum (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Flamstead
- National Grid Reference:
- TL 07828 14586
Details
FLAMSTEAD HIGH STREET TL 0714 (South side) 9/23 The Three Blackbirds PH -
GV II
Inn, now a public house. C16 or earlier W wing, C17 E range refronted in brick, in C18. C19 porch and jetty of crosswing underbuilt. Timber frame, wing roughcast with red brick casing to ground floor painted on W. E range red brick in Flemish-bond. Steep old red tile roofs. A 2-storeys and cellar, L-shaped corner block facing N. Internal chimney to 2-cells E range rising through front roofslope, entrance at junction with projecting E wing extending to rear with 4 bays and a lateral external chimney to N part and an internal gable chimney at S end. N front has projecting gabled wing on RH with a 4-light casement to 1st floor and a 3-light casement window under a segmental arch on ground floor. Lean-to brick porch in angle with half-glazed 4 panel flush-beaded door. A 4-light casement window to 1st floor and ground floor next porch with plat-band, plinth and corbelled course with projecting headers at eaves. Projecting swinging sign with 2 blind recesses on 1st floor to LH and a 4-panel flush bead door with flat hood on brackets with 3-lights casement window under segmental arch. Irregular W flank wall with a cross-window on 1st floor and other small-panes fixed lights. Interior has exposed timbers with framed E wall of wing opened up as a screen in the bar, mason-mitred crossbeam with chamfered knee-brace in 1st wing, and chamfered axial beam in E range which may have been inserted. Stair in rear angle of wings.
Listing NGR: TL0782814586
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 157799
- 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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