The Clock House
THE CLOCK HOUSE, 43, LONDON ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1176651
- Date first listed:
- 02-Oct-1981
- List Entry Name:
- The Clock House
- Statutory Address:
- THE CLOCK HOUSE, 43, LONDON ROAD
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1176651
- Date first listed:
- 02-Oct-1981
- List Entry Name:
- The Clock House
- Statutory Address 1:
- THE CLOCK HOUSE, 43, LONDON ROAD
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:
- THE CLOCK HOUSE, 43, LONDON ROAD
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 48085 14797
Details
LONDON ROAD 1. 5253 (West Side) No 43 (The Clock House) TL 4808 1479:3/7 II GV 2. Early C18 L-shaped timberframed 2 storey house facing S and W, extended by parallel range on N of S range in mid C18 to give compact hipped roof block with entrance on road front to E. C19 remodelling of E front in 2 stages, and parallel 2 storey extension of N side. Formerly separate C19,2 storey weatherboarded and hipped slate roof block on W now linked to house and to late C18,2 storey stable block, weatherboarded with hipped slate roof and central gable on E, at SW corner of house. Large internal chimney 1/3 from W end of S range. Later stacks at rear walls of rooms in E front. S front weatherboarded. 3 windows irregularly spaced. Flush box sashes. 8/8 panes to 1st floor (renewed). Gd floor windows altered. 3 blocked doorways. Modern door near E end. E front has 3 windows and central door. the oldest feature is a carpenters' Gothic porch of c.1770 with coupled wooden colonnettes with 2 annulets in this height, moulded caps and bases and a coved and arched entablature around a wide flat hood with parallel soffit. The upper windows are early C19 flush box sashes with moulded architraves. At centre 3/3 panes. At sides 3 light sashes 2/2:6/6:2/2. Later C19 remodelling has added bracketed eaves cornice. Frieze broken over windows. Paired brackets, 2 large single storey polygonal bay windows of brick stuccoed and with Portland stone cills, pilasters between plate glass sash windows, chamfered and stopped lintols, and bracketed eaves overhang to lead hipped roofs. Later C19 panelled pilasters flanking 4 panel door with small coloured glass fanlight. Stable block is weather- boarded with modillioned eaves cornice. Wide central gable on E with clock face and moulded raking cornice surmounted by arrow windvane. 2 pairs of large double doors, central and to S. Stable combined with coach house. External stair to upper floor with 2, 8 paned low windows and twinplank doors below gable. Interesting architectural complex in corner position. OS 25" of 1879 marks house as Prospect House. Porch similar to that at Sayesbury Manor council offices in Bell Street (S side).
Listing NGR: TL4808514797
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 160817
- 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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