Bird in Hand

BIRD IN HAND, 24 AND 26, GREEN END

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Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1173089
Date first listed:
22-Feb-1964
List Entry Name:
Bird in Hand
Statutory Address:
BIRD IN HAND, 24 AND 26, GREEN END
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Official list entry

Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1173089
Date first listed:
22-Feb-1964
Date of most recent amendment:
24-Jan-1984
List Entry Name:
Bird in Hand
Statutory Address 1:
BIRD IN HAND, 24 AND 26, GREEN END

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.

Understanding list entries

Corrections and minor amendments

Location

Statutory Address:
BIRD IN HAND, 24 AND 26, GREEN END

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

County:
Hertfordshire
District:
East Hertfordshire (District Authority)
Parish:
Braughing
National Grid Reference:
TL 39360 25309

Details

Braughing village TL 3925 BRAUGHING GREEN END (east side)

9/7 Nos 24, and 26 (Bird in Hand) 22.2.64 (formerly listed as The Bird in Hand House No 26)

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House, sometime a public house, now 2 properties. C17 or earlier. Timber frame roughcast with stucco sill and lower part of front faced in whitewashed brick. Steep old red tile roofs, half hipped with gabled rear wing (No 24) at SE. Slate gambrel roofed single-storey extension to rear wing. Single-storey extension to N, timber framed and roughcast with weatherboarded apron and old red tile roof. L-shaped plan with rear lateral chimney for N end chimney at junction of wings. 3-unit plan front range with door offset to S. 3 windows to 1st floor. 3- light flush casements. 3-light sliding casement to right of door and 5-light casement to N part of ground floor. Pilastered doorcase with panelled and half-glazed door and moulded hood on elaborate shaped brackets. 2 storeys rear wing (No 24) has 3- light sliding casement over canted bow oriel window on S to left of plank door with 3 small lights and flat hood on shaped brackets. 2-light Yorkshire sliding window to right with small panes.

Listing NGR: TL3936025309

Legacy

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

Legacy System number:
161210
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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