Bacon's House and Number 84 (Including Attached Outbuildings)
BACON'S HOUSE AND NUMBER 84 (INCLUDING ATTACHED OUTBUILDINGS), 82 AND 84, HIGH STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1174998
- Date first listed:
- 27-May-1968
- List Entry Name:
- Bacon's House and Number 84 (Including Attached Outbuildings)
- Statutory Address:
- BACON'S HOUSE AND NUMBER 84 (INCLUDING ATTACHED OUTBUILDINGS), 82 AND 84, HIGH STREET
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1174998
- Date first listed:
- 27-May-1968
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 19-Nov-1984
- List Entry Name:
- Bacon's House and Number 84 (Including Attached Outbuildings)
- Statutory Address 1:
- BACON'S HOUSE AND NUMBER 84 (INCLUDING ATTACHED OUTBUILDINGS), 82 AND 84, 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:
- BACON'S HOUSE AND NUMBER 84 (INCLUDING ATTACHED OUTBUILDINGS), 82 AND 84, 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:
- Ashwell
- National Grid Reference:
- TL 26599 39609
Details
TL 2639 ASHWELL HIGH STREET (North side) Ashwell Nos. 82 (Bacon's House) 8/23 and No. 84 (including 27.5.68 attached outbuildings) (formerly listed as The Old Saddlery and Bluegates Farmhouse)
GV II
House and shop. C17 or earlier, refronted mid C19. Timber frame. Roughcast left gable end (No. 84). Painted brick on right. Steep pitched plain tile roof. 2 storeys and attic. 4 recessed 8/8-pane sashes with gauged brick lintels and roll moulded jambs. Door of No. 82 has heavy brick surround with roll-moulded piers and shaped cornice. Moulded panel door with 2-light fan. No. 84 has mid C19 shop with half-glazed door and 15-pane window. Roll-moulded architraves with paterae; cornice hood. C17 leaded casement in left return gable end. Extended from rear of No. 84 is a mid C19 barn in white brick. Slate roof. 4 small casements. To rear of No. 82 is a roughcast C17 gable end with assorted windows including a C17 2-light leaded attic casement. Barn extension on this side has, on ground floor, plank doors alternating with sash windows.
Listing NGR: TL2659939609
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 162154
- 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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