93/95 AND 97, HIGH STREET
93/95 AND 97, HIGH STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1174330
- Date first listed:
- 27-May-1968
- List Entry Name:
- 93/95 AND 97, HIGH STREET
- Statutory Address:
- 93/95 AND 97, HIGH STREET
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1174330
- Date first listed:
- 27-May-1968
- List Entry Name:
- 93/95 AND 97, HIGH STREET
- Statutory Address 1:
- 93/95 AND 97, 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:
- 93/95 AND 97, HIGH STREET
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Hertfordshire
- District:
- North Hertfordshire (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Barkway
- National Grid Reference:
- TL 38384 35301
Details
BARKWAY HIGH STREET TL 3835 (East side) Barkway 9/33 Nos. 93/95, 27.5.68 and 97
GV II*
House, at one time 3 dwellings now 2. Late C15, floored and stack inserted c.1600, divided and altered mid C18. Timber frame, rendered, part red brick cased, some weatherboarding. Steeply pitched hipped thatched roof. Wealden house. Now all 2 storeys. Hall range has symmetrical C18 red brick refronting below original coved eaves. Central plank and muntin door with gauged brick flat arched head, simple hood and brackets. Flanking openings have gauged brick cambered heads, that to right blind, to left a 16 pane sash. 3 blind horizontal panels above with a horizontal sliding sash to inserted upper floor. Projecting brick course to plaster coving, 2 brackets project to support wall plate. Originally jettied crosswings underbuilt in C18 red brick. Both have outer entrances, plank and muntin doors with simple brackets to hoods. 20 pane glazing bar sashes in shallow reveals. Rendered first floors, a horizontal sliding sash to left, small sash to right. Axial ridge stack inserted in through passage, rebuilt cap. Left return has weatherboarded dado, rendered above, C19 external stack with offsets. Right return is C18 and later red brick. Rendered to rear with mixed casements, some early 2 and 3 light windows. Small slate roofed outshuts added to rear. Interior: exposed framing of large scantling, curved passing tension braces. Hall has shutter grooves, peg holes for a bench at upper end. Crown post roof with downward braces. c.1600 stop chamfered bearer, joists and fireplace lintel. c.1600 painted decoration in hall and parlour. (VCH 1914: Pevsner 1977: RCHM Typescript).
Listing NGR: TL3838435301
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 162487
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Doubleday, AH, The Victoria History of the County of Hertford, (1914)
Pevsner, N, The Buildings of England: Hertfordshire, (1953)
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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