Brown's Orchard

BROWN'S ORCHARD, GADDESDEN ROW

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Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1173094
Date first listed:
26-Jan-1967
List Entry Name:
Brown's Orchard
Statutory Address:
BROWN'S ORCHARD, GADDESDEN ROW

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1173094
Date first listed:
26-Jan-1967
Date of most recent amendment:
19-Mar-1987
List Entry Name:
Brown's Orchard
Statutory Address 1:
BROWN'S ORCHARD, 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.

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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:
BROWN'S ORCHARD, 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 04076 13652

Details

GREAT GADDESDEN GADDESDEN ROW TL 01 SW (South side) Jockey End 3/89 Brown's Orchard 26.1.67

GV II

House. C16 or early C17, 3 additional gabled rear wings C20. Timber frame exposed on 1st floor, infill panels and casing to ground floor in painted brick. Steep old red tile roofs. A long 2-storeys house facing E, with gabled short rear wing a third from N end, and additional C20 similar wings giving the appearance of 2 pairs of linked gabled 2-storeys rear wings, one at each end, with gap between, opposite large internal chimney in main range. E front shows framing of 5 structural bays, the 2nd from N has prominent tension braces. 6 flush casement windows. Battened door in N end wall. Wide-spaced studs in walls. Clasped-purlin roof with collar and queen-struts in N gable.

Listing NGR: TL0407613652

Legacy

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

Legacy System number:
157870
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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