GRAY AND SONS, W ADAMS GROUP, SAMCO

1, HALF ACRES

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1176015
Date first listed:: 18-Oct-1949
List Entry Name:: GRAY AND SONS, W ADAMS GROUP, SAMCO
Statutory Address:: 1, HALF ACRES

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1176015
Date first listed:: 18-Oct-1949
Date of most recent amendment:: 11-Jul-1983
List Entry Name:: GRAY AND SONS, W ADAMS GROUP, SAMCO
Statutory Address 1:: 1, HALF ACRES
Statutory Address 2:: 2,10,12, HADHAM ROAD
Statutory Address 3:: GRAY AND SONS, W ADAMS GROUP, SAMCO

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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This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

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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Location

Statutory Address:: 1, HALF ACRES
Statutory Address:: 2,10,12, HADHAM ROAD
Statutory Address:: GRAY AND SONS, W ADAMS GROUP, SAMCO

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County:: Hertfordshire
District:: East Hertfordshire (District Authority)
Parish:: Bishop's Stortford
National Grid Reference:: TL4865121582

Details

1. 5253 TL 4821 NE 1/27 18.10.49

HADHAM ROAD (North Side) Nos 2, 10 and 12; (formerly listed as Nos 2, 6 and 8) 1 Half Acres (Gray and Sons, W Adams Group, Samco)

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2. L-shaped complex of buildings, almost total rebuild of former residence of medieval chantry priest. At right angles behind range parallel to street: early C18 house, a rebuild of C16 timber frame, in turn remodelled late C18. Stucco, old red tile roof, 2 storeys, 6 window. Two slightly projecting 2 window wings with hipped roofs. Central door with side pilasters and dentil moulded entablature. Three C18 sash windows, remainder C19 and modern. North wing (No 1 Half Acres) is best preserved with painted pargetted exterior. Interior (No 1). Early C18 staircase with barley twist balusters, and early C18 detail in west ground floor room. Heavy exposed timbers on first floor. Former chantry bell attached to outer west wall. Interior south side (Gray and Sons). Early C17 timber beam ceiling with plaster decoration. Range parallel to street, C18 plastered and parapetted, steep old red tile roof. Two and a half storeys. West block, 4 first floor C18 sash windows and one gabled dormer; modern ground floor shop front. C16 or Cl7 timber-framing inside. East block has one ground floor and 3 first floor C18 sash windows. Early C19 canted bay, multipane shop front on east ground floor. C16 and C17 timber framing inside. In centre of range is a gabled coach entrance with imitation half-timbering and "Chinese Chippendale" style wooden gates. Nos 10 and 12 are an early/mid C19 attachment on rear of early C18 block. Stuccoed yellow stock brick, modern tile hipped roof. Two storeys. Italianate window surrounds and vertically-hung sashes. East side of group bounded by flint and red brick wall, some C17 brickwork. (RCHM (1911) 64).

Listing NGR: TL4865121582

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Inventory of the Historical Monuments of Hertfordshire, (1910)

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This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.