White Hart House, and Number 89

WHITE HART HOUSE, AND NUMBER 89, 87 89, HIGH STREET

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Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1174546
Date first listed:
22-Feb-1967
List Entry Name:
White Hart House, and Number 89
Statutory Address:
WHITE HART HOUSE, AND NUMBER 89, 87 89, HIGH STREET
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Official list entry

Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1174546
Date first listed:
22-Feb-1967
Date of most recent amendment:
06-Jul-1984
List Entry Name:
White Hart House, and Number 89
Statutory Address 1:
WHITE HART HOUSE, AND NUMBER 89, 87 89, HIGH STREET

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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.

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Location

Statutory Address:
WHITE HART HOUSE, AND NUMBER 89, 87 89, HIGH STREET

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

County:
Hertfordshire
District:
East Hertfordshire (District Authority)
Parish:
Buntingford
National Grid Reference:
TL 36129 29688

Details

TL 3629 BUNTINGFORD HIGH STREET (west side)

7/62 No 87 (White Hart House), and No 89 22.2.67 (formerly listed as Nos 87 and 89)

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House, sometime The White Hart Inn, now 2 houses. C17 or earlier N crosswing (No 89), the rest C19. Timber frame on painted brick sill to N wing, roughcast with applied half timbering to front above jetty. Red brick ground floor and half-timbered elevation above jetty in later parts. Steep old red tile roofs. A H-plan, 2 storeys house facing E with lower ancient N crosswing, central chimney a third from N end, and gabled and jettied S wing. Each house has 2 windows on each floor and door into middle part beside a crosswing. C19 3-light mullioned and transomed flush casement windows in each gable and flanking the door of No 87. Similar 2-light window to left of door to No 89 and canted brick early C18 bay window with leaded glazing under high jetty of N wing. This has heavy bull-nosed joists and knee braces indicating a former door to left of bay window. Plaster coved cornice to jetty of middle part: shaped ends to upright joists to jetty of S wing. 6-panel early C19 door to No 89 up 2 steps inreeded doorcase with flat hood on shaped brackets. Half- glazed 6-panel door to No 87 with broad flat hood carried on heavy brackets springing from posts flanking door. 2 steps. (RCHM (1911) 140 No 18).

Listing NGR: TL3612929688

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Legacy System number:
159802
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Sources

Other
Inventory of the Historical Monuments of Hertfordshire, (1910)

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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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