Bunkers

BUNKERS, BRADDEN LANE

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Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1172947
Date first listed:
26-Jan-1967
List Entry Name:
Bunkers
Statutory Address:
BUNKERS, BRADDEN LANE

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1172947
Date first listed:
26-Jan-1967
List Entry Name:
Bunkers
Statutory Address 1:
BUNKERS, BRADDEN LANE

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.

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Corrections and minor amendments

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.

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Corrections and minor amendments

Location

Statutory Address:
BUNKERS, BRADDEN LANE

The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.

County:
Hertfordshire
District:
Dacorum (District Authority)
Parish:
Great Gaddesden
National Grid Reference:
TL 03617 13352

Details

GREAT GADDESDEN BRADDEN LANE TL 01 SW (East side) Jockey End 3/66 Bunkers 26.1.67 - II

House. C17, chimney later C17, renovated in later C20. Timber frame exposed on 1st flcor with red brick infill. Ground floor renewed in red brick. Steep old red tile roof. A 2-storeys and attics house facing N with lobby entrance by stack a third from E end. A 3-cells plan with unheated W room originally and stair probably to rear of chimney. Large chimney rises through ridge with three conjoined square flues and panelled side to front. 2 ground floor fireplaces and brick fireplace with chamfered and hollow stopped lintel to chamber over hall. Irregular fenestration with 4 small-pane casements to each floor. Bays have 4, 3, 5, and ?4 panels externally on front, the narrowest being an entrance- and-chimney bay. Clasped-purlin roof with collars and square butted scarf joints in purlins and wall-plate. Straight brace in front wall. Bread oven said to have been destroyed for new staircase in entrance lobby. Photographic evidence at house suggests a timber framed chimney preceded the present brick one in the same narrow bay. Axial floor beams in rooms to each side of stack with higher degree of finish in E end room, probably the parlour. Cross-beam in W end room.

Listing NGR: TL0361713352

Legacy

The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.

Legacy System number:
157847
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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