Bell and Crown Public House

BELL AND CROWN PUBLIC HOUSE, 27, HIGH STREET

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Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1175777
Date first listed:
15-Jun-1971
List Entry Name:
Bell and Crown Public House
Statutory Address:
BELL AND CROWN PUBLIC HOUSE, 27, HIGH STREET
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Official list entry

Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1175777
Date first listed:
15-Jun-1971
Date of most recent amendment:
27-Sept-1984
List Entry Name:
Bell and Crown Public House
Statutory Address 1:
BELL AND CROWN PUBLIC HOUSE, 27, HIGH STREET

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.

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Corrections and minor amendments

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.

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Corrections and minor amendments

Location

Statutory Address:
BELL AND CROWN PUBLIC HOUSE, 27, HIGH STREET

The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.

County:
Hertfordshire
District:
St. Albans (District Authority)
Parish:
Wheathampstead
National Grid Reference:
TL1773314048

Details

TL 1714
14/412
15.6.71

WHEATHAMPSTEAD
HIGH STREET
(east side)
WHEATHAMPSTEAD

No 27
(Bell and Crown P.H.)
(formerly listed as the Bell
and Crowm Inn)

GV
II

Public House. C17 timber frame. Early C19 front block. C17 or
earlier rear wing cased in brick. White rendered brick. Steep
pitched plain tile roof with rebuilt C17 stack on N gable end.
2 storeys. Floor band. Dentilled brick eaves. 3 windows,
centre one blank, outer ones with 1st floor triple-hung sashes
and ground floor C19 sash oriels. Arched door. Rear wing is 2
blocks. 1 gabled dormer. Lower back range has C17 gable-end
stack. C18/19 glazing bar casements.

Listing NGR: TL1773314048

Legacy

The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.

Legacy System number:
163956
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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