59, HIGH STREET
59, HIGH STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1176629
- Date first listed:
- 24-Jan-1967
- List Entry Name:
- 59, HIGH STREET
- Statutory Address:
- 59, HIGH STREET
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1176629
- Date first listed:
- 24-Jan-1967
- List Entry Name:
- 59, HIGH STREET
- Statutory Address 1:
- 59, 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:
- 59, 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:
- Standon
- National Grid Reference:
- TL3965122292
Details
TL 39 22
7/14
24.1.67
Standon
STANDON
HIGH STREET
(east side)
No 59
GV
II*
House. Circa 1700, rear wing possibly earlier. Red brick with
old red tiled roofs. Rear wing timber frame plastered. L-shaped
house with symmetrical street range with internal gable chimneys
and one room each side of central stair hall. 2 storeys, cellar
and attics with 2 storeys rear wing with large gable chimney and
ogee roofed conservatory abutting on E. 5 windows front facing W
with 4 steps to door, plinth, floorband, moulded brick cornice
(painted white) and parapet with stone coping concealing 3 hipped
dormers. Fine gauged segmental brick arches. Slightly recessed
flush box sash windows with segmental heads and C19 sashes with
4/4 panes (thick ovolo glazing bars remain in rear wing). 2
cellar windows have heavy central mullioned flush frames. Central
8-panelled door with rectangular fanlight in a moulded doorcase
with fluted Tuscan pilasters and flat hood on carved scroll
brackets with cornice breaking forward over each bracket. Good
original interior with fielded panelling in ground floor (of
plaster in LH room), cut string stair with carved stair ends, egg-
and-dart cornice to entrance, 2-panel fielded doors with H-hinges
on ground and 1st floors, moulded plank door in rear attic, and
large open fireplace with arched lintol in rear wing. Wine
bottle set in end of ridge of each dormer. Front wall reddened
and tuck pointed. An impressive Queen Anne house overlooking the
market place of the former borough.
Listing NGR: TL3965122292
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 161114
- 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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