38, 40 AND 42, WALKERN ROAD
38, 40 AND 42, WALKERN ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1175554
- Date first listed:
- 31-May-1984
- List Entry Name:
- 38, 40 AND 42, WALKERN ROAD
- Statutory Address:
- 38, 40 AND 42, WALKERN ROAD
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- Date:
- 2001-08-14
- Reference:
- IOE01/04853/03
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1175554
- Date first listed:
- 31-May-1984
- List Entry Name:
- 38, 40 AND 42, WALKERN ROAD
- Statutory Address 1:
- 38, 40 AND 42, WALKERN 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:
- 38, 40 AND 42, WALKERN ROAD
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Hertfordshire
- District:
- East Hertfordshire (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Benington
- National Grid Reference:
- TL2990923912
Details
TL 2923
11/2
Benington
BENINGTON
WALKERN ROAD
(east side)
Nos 38, 40, and 42
GV
II
4 terraced houses, now 3. Early C19 (on 1839 Tithe Map). Timber
frame on tarred brick sill. Nos 38 and 40 dark weatherboarding
to ground floor with roll-worked on edge of each board. Upper
part roughcast at front. No 42 panelled pargetting with raised
roundels at floor level. Slate roof and 2 central red brick
chimneys. Single-fronted, handed, double-pile plan houses with
one front window to each floor of each house. Flush box sash
windows with 8/8 small panes and moulded surround. Ground floor
window of No 38 replaced by 2-light casement. Doors to 38 and 40
with broad frames and drip-boards on shaped brackets. Little
altered pair in a terrace of 4 houses. No 42 has no door on
front and represents the northern pair.
Listing NGR: TL2990923912
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 159626
- 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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