43 AND 45, BENINGTON ROAD
43 AND 45, BENINGTON ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1175062
- Date first listed:
- 31-May-1984
- List Entry Name:
- 43 AND 45, BENINGTON ROAD
- Statutory Address:
- 43 AND 45, BENINGTON ROAD
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1175062
- Date first listed:
- 31-May-1984
- List Entry Name:
- 43 AND 45, BENINGTON ROAD
- Statutory Address 1:
- 43 AND 45, BENINGTON ROAD
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:
- 43 AND 45, BENINGTON ROAD
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Hertfordshire
- District:
- East Hertfordshire (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Aston
- National Grid Reference:
- TL 27540 22722
Details
This list entry was subject to a Minor Amendment on 21/09/2012
TL 2722
12/14
ASTON
Aston village
BENINGTON ROAD
(south side)
Nos 43 and 45
GV
II*
House, now 2 houses. Mid to late C16, fittings of C17 and early C18, subsequently
divided. Timber frame on painted brick sill, plastered with a steep old red tile
roof. A 2-storeys and attics, 2-cell, central chimney, originally lobby entrance
plan house facing W. 2 wide bays with a narrow central chimney bay. Only S room
heated on upper floor. Symmetrical front now has 2 2-storeys shallow rectangular
bay windows, a small central upper window, and 2 4-panel doors beside the bay
windows. Slated and plastered lean-to on LH (N) end with weatherboarding on gable.
Cruciform central chimney plastered. Interior has axial beams, bolection moulded
fire surround on 1st floor S room and 2 early C18 surrounds on ground floor.
Clasped purlin roof has butt purlins for dormer window over the bays. Straight
wind braces in rear slope. Unheated first floor north chamber has a painted
scheme of the early C17, agreeable with dated examples elsewhere in Hertfordshire
of 1605, 4 painted walls with elaborate Jacobean Strapwork panelling, with stiles,
rails, arabesques and diamonds, colours of yellow, dark red, pale red and black
outline. An upper frieze with partly decipherable sententious or pious texts,
perhaps from a common source book with those at Pirton Grange, Hertfordshire.
Included at Grade II* as a perhaps complete decorative scheme in an otherwise
modern house.
Listing NGR: TL2754022722
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 159563
- 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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