38, GADDESDEN ROW
38, GADDESDEN ROW
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1173080
- Date first listed:
- 19-Mar-1987
- List Entry Name:
- 38, GADDESDEN ROW
- Statutory Address:
- 38, GADDESDEN ROW
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1173080
- Date first listed:
- 19-Mar-1987
- List Entry Name:
- 38, GADDESDEN ROW
- Statutory Address 1:
- 38, GADDESDEN ROW
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:
- 38, GADDESDEN ROW
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 05920 12203
Details
GREAT GADDESDEN GADDESDEN ROW TL 0l SE (North side) 4/82 No. 38 - GV II
House. C16, altered later C17, brick W part early C18, renovated c.1980. Timber frame on brick sill faced with red brick on ground floor and red tilehanging with scalloped band on 1st floor, W end in red brick chequered with vitrified blue headers. Steep old red tile roofs. A 2-storeys house set back from road facing S with higher W part's roof carried down as catslide to front sheltering a corner porch. A 2-bays structure probably formerly open to roof with floor inserted and W end chimney added in later C17. Early C18 W service bay possibly replaces flimsier lower one, as decorative rib on W face of chimney now in attic of W extension. S front has gabled dormer at W and 2, 2-light casement windows. 3-light casements to ground floor. Large internal chimney emerges in higher roof next to lower part. Interior has jowled posts, straight heavy braces to tie beams, straight-tension braces in long walls, wide-spaced studs exposed in front and rear walls on both floors, chamfered axial beams with hollow stops and heavy squared joists, squint-butted scarf joints in wall-plates, clasped-purlin roof with collar-and-queen-strut trusses, and straight wind-braces. Interior full-height framed partition divides 2 bays of older part. Large open fireplace serves only hall (middle room) and stairs to cellar and 1st floor beside chimney on S. Deep well in cellar below W end.
Listing NGR: TL0592012203
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 157864
- 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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