Boar's Head Inn
BOAR'S HEAD INN, 30, HIGH STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1176189
- Date first listed:
- 18-Oct-1949
- List Entry Name:
- Boar's Head Inn
- Statutory Address:
- BOAR'S HEAD INN, 30, HIGH STREET
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- Reference:
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1176189
- Date first listed:
- 18-Oct-1949
- List Entry Name:
- Boar's Head Inn
- Statutory Address 1:
- BOAR'S HEAD INN, 30, 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:
- BOAR'S HEAD INN, 30, 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:
- Bishop's Stortford
- National Grid Reference:
- TL 48598 21372
Details
1. 5253 HIGH STREET (North Side)
No 30 (Boar's Head Inn) TL 4821 SE:3/32 18.10.49
II* GV
2. C15 and late C16 exposed timber frame, altered C18 and early C19. Cement rendered ground floor, old red tile steep-pitched roofs. Two and a half storeys. Nearly symmetrical street front of 2 outer gable ends, jettied at first floor and centre gable in recessed middle. Central door is flanked by quadrant bays with curved early C19 sash windows. Canted C18 sash window bays beneath jetties, and C15 blocked 4 centre arch door on west ground floor. West first floor has diagonal and curved timbers and original cusped bargeboard. Leaded oak mullioned window centre first floor and blocked window to west; others modern leaded casements. East elevation has C17 brick chimney stack with 3 diagonal shafts, C18 sash and C19 casement windows. Interior. Ground floor open brick fireplace with crenellated oak beam. Heaviest exposed timbers on west bay which is oldest part of house. (RCHM (1911) 64).
Listing NGR: TL4859821372
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 160934
- 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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