15,17 AND 19, HIGH STREET
15,17 AND 19, HIGH STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1173713
- Date first listed:
- 02-Dec-1986
- List Entry Name:
- 15,17 AND 19, HIGH STREET
- Statutory Address:
- 15,17 AND 19, HIGH STREET
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1173713
- Date first listed:
- 02-Dec-1986
- List Entry Name:
- 15,17 AND 19, HIGH STREET
- Statutory Address 1:
- 15,17 AND 19, HIGH 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:
- 15,17 AND 19, HIGH STREET
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Hertfordshire
- District:
- Dacorum (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Kings Langley
- National Grid Reference:
- TL 07182 02782
Details
KINGS LANGLEY HIGH STREET TL 0702 (East side) 13/132 - Nos. 15/17, and 19
GV II
House, now 3 shops. C16 or earlier, C17 SE rear wing, brick front has engraved over door to No. 19 'JL E 1781', N bay rebuilt in brick with rear gable c.1900. Timber frame, brick nogged at rear with tilehung SE gable, and painted red brick front tuck pointed. Steep old red tile roof carried down as catslide over brick built rear outshut. A 2-storeys and part cellar long 4-windows range fronting W onto the High Street. Original plan possibly a row of 4 square tenements but probably a 3-unit cross passage house with wide through passage a S end of No. 17, hall and S parlour in No. 19, narrow service bay in N part of No. 17, and a rear contemporary wide bay, possibly a separate tenement at No. 15. Shallow C17 SE rear gabled wing of 2 storeys is wider than the S parlour bay. C17 internal rear wall chimney in hall and turned balusters in enclosure to stair in parlour next to door from hall. The whole sub- divided in 1781 with a double fronted house at S (No.19) and a house and a shop in N half (Nos. 15 and 17).W elevation of 2 storeys with pilaster at centre and near each end. N half has 2 recessed sash windows to 1st floor with 3/3 panes:S half has 2 3-light wooden casement windows. No.15 has a wide recessed sash window with 10/10 panes beside the simple boarded door, both with segmental arches. No. 17 has a late Georgian small-paned shopfront, with canted bay window and fascia projecting to shelter the half-glazed door. Similar C20 matching canted bays with fascias now flank the boarded door in simple heavy frame under segmental arch at No. 19. Interior has jowled posts, curved tension bracing,curved braces to heavy tie-beams and queen-strut clasped purlin roof structure. Axial beams support floors. Walls have storey-height studs a metre or so apart, and an old photograph shows the N gable was of similar framing. The C17 SE rear wing has a clasped-purlin roof with straight braces from jowled posts to tie-beam. Cellar under No. 15 has flint and stone blocks in S wall. (KLLHMS Report 1978 in NMR).
Listing NGR: TL0718202782
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 157663
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Kings Langley Local History and Museum Society Report in Kings Langley Local History and Museum Society Report, (1978)
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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