Redlyn
REDLYN, 70, HIGH STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1175958
- Date first listed:
- 24-Nov-1966
- List Entry Name:
- Redlyn
- Statutory Address:
- REDLYN, 70, HIGH STREET
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1175958
- Date first listed:
- 24-Nov-1966
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 31-May-1984
- List Entry Name:
- Redlyn
- Statutory Address 1:
- REDLYN, 70, 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.
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:
- REDLYN, 70, HIGH STREET
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Hertfordshire
- District:
- East Hertfordshire (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Walkern
- National Grid Reference:
- TL 28907 26356
Details
TL 2826 WALKERN HIGH STREET (west side)
7/12 No 70 (Redlyn) 24.11.66 (formerly listed as No 70)
GV II
House, sometime the Red Lion PH. Later Cl7 (cast iron fireback with 'CR 1674'), timber framed rear wing later. Red brick in Flemish bond with dark headers. Steep old red tile roofs. Roughcast on S end and rear wing. A 2-storeys and attics, 2- cell, end chimneys plan house facing E with catslide rear outshuts flanking a gabled 3-storeys stair turret. 2-storeys, 3- bay, rear wing built against rear facing N, partly blocking top stair window. Symmetrical E front with high stucco plinth, floor band, and moulded wooden eaves cornice with modillions grouped 2:5:2:4:2:5:2 over 3 upper openings. Internal gable chimneys and gable parapets with moulded brick corbelled kneelers. 2 hipped dormers on roof slope with eaves cornices and 2-light casement windows. Flush box sash windows with 8/8 panes, 4 steps up to central raised and fielded 6-panel door (top 2 glazed), with heavy frame and Cl7 heavy shell hood carried on carved cantelever brackets. Tall narrow recess on outer face of each chimney, near top. Original 2-light mullioned leaded window at top of rear stair below gable parapet on corbelled kneelers. Interior has a closed-string stair with turned balusters and splat balustrade to attic landing, heavy cross-beams, open fireplaces at S end, with swept rear corners, at N end of ground floor large open fireplace with seats, niches, iron fireback and timber-framed chimneybreast. Rectangular fireplace to chamber over, with bar and ogee stops to chamfered ceiling cross-beam. Later kitchen with chimney in NW rear outshut. Rear wing with low ground floor partly below ground, W gable chimney, and lofty upper room said to have been sometime a library and meeting room appears to be a 3-bay Cl7 barn rebuilt here in C18. Timbering exposed inside with jowled posts, 3-bay clasped-purlin roof with inclined queen- struts to collars.
Listing NGR: TL2890726356
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 159693
- 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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