Nobles Corner
NOBLES CORNER, SMITH END LANE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1175587
- Date first listed:
- 03-Jun-1987
- List Entry Name:
- Nobles Corner
- Statutory Address:
- NOBLES CORNER, SMITH END LANE
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- Reference:
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1175587
- Date first listed:
- 03-Jun-1987
- List Entry Name:
- Nobles Corner
- Statutory Address 1:
- NOBLES CORNER, SMITH END LANE
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:
- NOBLES CORNER, SMITH END LANE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Hertfordshire
- District:
- North Hertfordshire (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Barley
- National Grid Reference:
- TL 39870 38209
Details
In the entry for BARLEY SMITH END LANE (East Side 7/129 Barley
Nobles Corner
The description shall be amended to read:
House, C15, altered C16 and again in C17 and C18. Timber frame, rendered and part weatherboarded. Steeply pitched hipped roof. 2 cell lobby entry. 1 storey and attic, originally open hall with two end bays. Lobby entrance with a thatched gabled porch, plank and muntin door. Flush frame small pane casements with hoodboards, 3 lights to left, 5 lights to right. Weatherboarding below a 3 light dormer with eyebrow thatching to right. Cross axial ridge stack. Catslide roof over leanto outshut to rear right, scattered casements. Interior: Sooting to roof timbers indicates the presence of former open hall though much of the heavy timbering of the original crown post roof has gone. The original interior layout with end bays for solar and service in the proportion 1:2:1 is clear and there are indications of a large king-mullion window to the hall, to which a cross passage door later blocked and with anarched head, also survives. The hall was divided during the C16 when a stack was inserted; this was doubled in C17th (a date of 1683 over porch may relate to this phase). During the C18th the plan was altered to the present lobby entry form and the original door (QV) was blocked. A good example of a small medieval house, albeit much mutilated.
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BARLEY SMITH END LANE TL 3938 (East side) Barley
7/129 Nobles Corner
- II
House. Early to mid C17, possibly earlier. Timber frame, rendered and part weatherboarded. Steeply pitched hipped thatched roof. 2 cell lobby entry. I storey and attic, possibly open originally. Central entrance with a thatched gabled open porch, plank and muntin door. Flush frame small pane casements with hoodboards, 3 lights to left, 5 lights to right. Weatherboading below a 3 light dormer with eyebrow thatching to right. Cross axial ridge stack. Returns have applied sham timber framing, small pane casements, to right weatherboarding and a pentice board. Catslide roof over lean-to outshut to rear right, scattered casements. Interior not inspected.
Listing NGR: TL3987038209
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 162586
- 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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