Long Close
LONG CLOSE, GRAVELEY ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1175765
- Date first listed:
- 28-May-1987
- List Entry Name:
- Long Close
- Statutory Address:
- LONG CLOSE, GRAVELEY ROAD
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1175765
- Date first listed:
- 28-May-1987
- List Entry Name:
- Long Close
- Statutory Address 1:
- LONG CLOSE, GRAVELEY 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:
- LONG CLOSE, GRAVELEY ROAD
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Hertfordshire
- District:
- North Hertfordshire (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Wymondley
- National Grid Reference:
- TL 21412 28708
Details
WYMONDLEY GRAVELEY ROAD TL 2128 (North side) Great Wymondley
10/149 Long Close - GV II
House. C16 or earlier, altered late C17, NE rear wing C19, E end and NW rear wing C20 re-using old timbers. Timber frame exposed on 1st floor, red brick NE rear wing and casing to ground floor. Steep old red tile roofs, slate roof to NE wing. A long, 2-storeys house, set back from road-junction, facing S. Large external W gable chimney, and an internal chimney near the middle of the house, rising in the rear roofslope. S front has 3 windows to each floor, close-studding on the 1st floor with plastered panels, 6 structural bays, gabled porch to door with E part, and door position marked by 2-lights window in E part. Flush casement windows, lattice-leaded, with C18 iron opening light. 3-lights windows generally, but 4-lights in middle on ground floor. W gable shows a clasped-purlin roof structure with the purlins supported on a collar. (RCHM (1911)106 item 7).
Listing NGR: TL2141228708
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 162761
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
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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