NUMBER 64 (MOONRAKERS) (INCLUDING NORTH PART FORMERLY SEPARATELY LISTED AS MOONRAKERS, UNDER THE VALLEY)

NUMBER 64 (MOONRAKERS) (INCLUDING NORTH PART FORMERLY SEPARATELY LISTED AS MOONRAKERS, UNDER THE VALLEY), 64, HIGH STREET

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1176902
Date first listed:: 27-May-1968
List Entry Name:: NUMBER 64 (MOONRAKERS) (INCLUDING NORTH PART FORMERLY SEPARATELY LISTED AS MOONRAKERS, UNDER THE VALLEY)
Statutory Address:: NUMBER 64 (MOONRAKERS) (INCLUDING NORTH PART FORMERLY SEPARATELY LISTED AS MOONRAKERS, UNDER THE VALLEY), 64, HIGH STREET

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Date:: 2001-08-08
Reference:: IOE01/04973/25
Rights:: © Mr Ron Walker. Source: Historic England Archive

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1176902
Date first listed:: 27-May-1968
Date of most recent amendment:: 08-Feb-1988
List Entry Name:: NUMBER 64 (MOONRAKERS) (INCLUDING NORTH PART FORMERLY SEPARATELY LISTED AS MOONRAKERS, UNDER THE VALLEY)
Statutory Address 1:: NUMBER 64 (MOONRAKERS) (INCLUDING NORTH PART FORMERLY SEPARATELY LISTED AS MOONRAKERS, UNDER THE VALLEY), 64, HIGH STREET

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.

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This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

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.

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Location

Statutory Address:: NUMBER 64 (MOONRAKERS) (INCLUDING NORTH PART FORMERLY SEPARATELY LISTED AS MOONRAKERS, UNDER THE VALLEY), 64, HIGH STREET

The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.

County:: Hertfordshire
District:: North Hertfordshire (District Authority)
Parish:: St. Paul's Walden
National Grid Reference:: TL 18386 21158

Details

TL 1821 ST PAUL'S WALDEN HIGH STREET (North side) Whitwell

12/144 No. 64 (Moonrakers) 27.5.68 (including N part formerly separately listed as Moonrakers, under The Valley)

GV II

House. Circa 1500 open hall house with storeyed N service crosswing, chimney inserted in cross-passage and floor in hall in late C16, hall heightened and S wing built on site of original parlour wing in late C17 (graffito of topping out ceremony with 'FPA/1686'), Divided into 5 cottages by late C18, restored as one house 1963. Timber frame exposed at front (W) on 1st floor with plastered infill to jettied N wing and flush S wing but red brick infill to hall range. Roughcast on ground floor and S side but red brick to front of hall range. Steep old red tile roofs. An irregular H-plan house facing W on corner with The Valley. 4 windows long front and 2 to S end. Front has 2-lights casement windows with small panes to 1st floor and 3-lights similar windows to ground floor. Very large external N end chimney in narrow red bricks. N wing has tension braces set back behind studs and not intended to be seen. S crosswing has braces flush with studs. Interior has re-used smoke blackened rafters with mortices for collars, jowled posts at level of old hall range eaves, cut through tie-beam at this level, clasped-purlin roof to N wing which had one room on each floor. Chamfered and stopped joists and axial beams to floor inserted in hall. (RCHM Typescript: Morris (1980)40).

Listing NGR: TL1838621158

Legacy

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Legacy System number:: 162936
Legacy System:: LBS

Sources

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Morris, (1980)

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This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.