The Olive Branch
THE OLIVE BRANCH, STEVENAGE ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1175345
- Date first listed:
- 27-May-1968
- List Entry Name:
- The Olive Branch
- Statutory Address:
- THE OLIVE BRANCH, STEVENAGE ROAD
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1175345
- Date first listed:
- 27-May-1968
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 28-May-1987
- List Entry Name:
- The Olive Branch
- Statutory Address 1:
- THE OLIVE BRANCH, STEVENAGE 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:
- THE OLIVE BRANCH, STEVENAGE ROAD
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Hertfordshire
- District:
- North Hertfordshire (District Authority)
- Parish:
- St. Ippolyts
- National Grid Reference:
- TL 19844 27047
Details
ST IPPOLLITTS STEVENAGE ROAD TL 1927 (South side) St. Ippollitts
9/74 The Olive Branch 27.5.68 (formerly listed as The Olive Branch Public House)
GV II
House. C16, a beer house 1840-1971, enlarged to rear in 2 stages since 1971. Timber frame on black stuccoed sill, roughcast, exposed timbers on 1st floor front with plastered infill panels. Steep old red tile roofs. A prominent 2-storeys, 2-cells plan building on roadside facing N with jettied, close-studded, upper front floor carried on heavy bull-nosed joists and 4 curved knee-braces, 2 flanking doorway in middle. 2 small flush 2-lights casement windows to ground floor with external boarded shutters. On 1st floor 2 small C19 2-lights casement windows with small panes in the positions of original windows as shown by the framing. Very large external W gable chimney in narrow red brick with offsets and 2 diagonally set square shafts with corbelled caps. The house is trapezoidal on plan being set out at an acute angle to the roadfront. Interior has 2 rooms on each floor. 2-storeys parallel rear wing, gabled rear extension, and porch on E end of extension. (RCHM (1911)130 no.4: Pevsner (1977)214: RCHM Typescript: inf Mrs. Rance).
Listing NGR: TL1984427047
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 162686
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Pevsner, N, Cherry, B, The Buildings of England: Hertfordshire, (1977), 214
Other
Inventory of the Historical Monuments of Hertfordshire, (1910)
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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