Bell Bridge House
BELL BRIDGE HOUSE, THE STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1173641
- Date first listed:
- 22-Feb-1967
- List Entry Name:
- Bell Bridge House
- Statutory Address:
- BELL BRIDGE HOUSE, THE STREET
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1173641
- Date first listed:
- 22-Feb-1967
- List Entry Name:
- Bell Bridge House
- Statutory Address 1:
- BELL BRIDGE HOUSE, THE 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:
- BELL BRIDGE HOUSE, THE STREET
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Hertfordshire
- District:
- East Hertfordshire (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Aspenden
- National Grid Reference:
- TL 36004 28214
Details
TL 32 NE ASPENDEN THE STREET 4/4 (south side) TL 3528 8/4 Bell Bridge House
22. 2.67
GV II
House. C15 or early C16 middle part, late C16 central chimney and parlour extension at E with floor inserted in C17, and C18 E chimney. W (service) part rebuilt in C18 or C19. Timber frame on low brick sill, roughcast with weatherboarded apron. Steep old red tile roof. A 2-storeys, 3-cells, central-chimney, lobby- entry plan house facing N with C17 rear stair turret, and gabled front porch (renewed). Irregular fenestration with 4 leaded flush casements to 1st floor and 3 to ground floor. 2-light flush Yorkshire sliding casements at rear. External E gable chimney added in C18 to heat previously unheated parlour. Parlour has exposed C17 chamfered and stopped narrow joists and axial beam to ceiling. Hall has a fine elaborately moulded timber C16 fireplace lintol to open fire, entrance to stair, and very massive flat axial joists, heavy cross-beam and massive square posts. Stepped-jowled post and jetty corner bracket survive in enclosed space by stair (note and drawings by Gordon Moodey in RCHM files) which with remaining upper-floor walls, tension bracing, tie-beams, and shutter groove for window on N side wall of chamber over hall, show that the late C16 chimney was built against a jettied external end-wall of an older building. What survives is the E bay of a 2-storeys wing, of at least 2 bays, of a house the hall and service end of which extended either in line to the W or at right angles to the S.
Listing NGR: TL3600428214
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 159719
- 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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