Thorpe House
19, High Street, Puckeridge
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1176364
- Date first listed:
- 23-Nov-1983
- List Entry Name:
- Thorpe House
- Statutory Address:
- 19, High Street, Puckeridge
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1176364
- Date first listed:
- 23-Nov-1983
- List Entry Name:
- Thorpe House
- Statutory Address 1:
- 19, High Street, Puckeridge
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:
- 19, High Street, Puckeridge
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Hertfordshire
- District:
- East Hertfordshire (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Standon
- National Grid Reference:
- TL 38623 23404
Details
TL 38 23
6/9
STANDON, Puckeridge,
HIGH STREET (east side),
No 19 (Thorpe House)
GV II*
House. C16 or earlier former open hall house, refronted in early
C19. Timber frame exposed at rear with pargetting in panels
between, painted brick rear wing, and stuccoed brick front.
Steep old red tile roofs, front range hipped and rear wing half-
hipped. 2-storeys and attic street range in 2 parts. Long left
part has low parapet, plinth, raised band at eaves and is 3
windows long. Flat topped 2-light casement dormer. Large
central chimney plastered. 2-light flush casement windows with
small. panes on 1st floor, and 2 similar windows to right of door
on ground floor. C19 shopfront with door and divided window to
left linked with moulded fascia on brackets. Short, slightly
recessed right hand bay has large rectangular carriage entrance
with double gates, small 3-light casement window near eaves
level, and main entrance door to left of carriageway. 4 panel
door in moulded doorcase with flat hood on shaped brackets.
Original building extends over carriageway, carried on heavy
close-set joists and jettied and hipped to rear with wide spaced
timber frame and tension bracing exposed. Good C17 staircase
inside. (Pevsner (1977) 273: RCHM (1911) 69).
Listing NGR: TL3862323404
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 161078
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Pevsner, N, Cherry, B, The Buildings of England: Hertfordshire, (1977), 273
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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