49-53, Knight Street
49-53, Knight Street, Sawbridgeworth, CM21 9AX
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1176474
- Date first listed:
- 06-Jun-1952
- List Entry Name:
- 49-53, Knight Street
- Statutory Address:
- 49-53, Knight Street, Sawbridgeworth, CM21 9AX
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1176474
- Date first listed:
- 06-Jun-1952
- List Entry Name:
- 49-53, Knight Street
- Statutory Address 1:
- 49-53, Knight Street, Sawbridgeworth, CM21 9AX
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:
- 49-53, Knight Street, Sawbridgeworth, CM21 9AX
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Hertfordshire
- District:
- East Hertfordshire (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Sawbridgeworth
- National Grid Reference:
- TL 48397 14829
Details
This list entry was subject to a Minor Amendment on 12 August 2024 to amend the name and address and reformat the text to current standards.
TL 4839 1482:
3/59
KNIGHT STREET (east side)
Nos 49-53
(Formerly listed as Nos 35 and 37)
6.6.52
GV
II
C18 exterior features. Proportions suggest C16 or C17 structure, L-shaped with secondary front to Church Street. Timber frame plastered. Steep old red tile roof hipped at corner and at east end but gabled to north. Modillioned eaves cornice. Two storey, three windows to west. C18 flush box sashes with moulded architraves and six/six panes. C19 shopfront with slender pilasters and full entablature breaking forward over scrolled brackets. Corner door blocked. Entablature continues round corner over small shop window in Church Street. Similar pilasters,brackets and entablature at some height to wide double doors (formerly glazed) in Church Street. Walls have pargetting in small raised panels above a low plinth. Two low windows to first floor in Church Street, east window flush sash,window with moulded architrave and twelve/six panes, west window same size but triple Victorian sash window with one/one panes. External gable chimney to north. Smaller internal gable stack to south. C19 single storey and cellar narrow stucco extension to east end in Church Street. High plinth with two cast iron vents to cellar. Continuous cill band. Three narrow round headed windows with glass deeply recessed. Keystones run up to full entablature with stucco modillioned cornice and blocking course with moulded coping. Ceiling follows slopes of roof and has ornamental cast iron brackets.
Main building appears in a drawing by J C Buckler of 1834 with a smaller shopfront onto Knight Street but with same roof form and appearance. Important in street views from
west and south.
Listing NGR: TL4839814832
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 160791
- 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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