Red Stack
RED STACK, THE KNOLL
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1251269
- Date first listed:
- 13-Dec-1984
- List Entry Name:
- Red Stack
- Statutory Address:
- RED STACK, THE KNOLL
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1251269
- Date first listed:
- 13-Dec-1984
- List Entry Name:
- Red Stack
- Statutory Address 1:
- RED STACK, THE KNOLL
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:
- RED STACK, THE KNOLL
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Hertfordshire
- District:
- East Hertfordshire (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Anstey
- National Grid Reference:
- TL 40607 33115
Details
TL 4033 ANSTEY THE KNOLL (West side)
6/13 Red Stack -
GV II
House. Later C17. Timber frame on stuccoed base, roughcast with steep old red tile roofs. 1½ storeys, 3-cells, internal chimney, lobby entry plan house facing E with C19 or C20 N bay and gabled rear wing at NW. 4 windows long with 3 tall gabled dormer windows at the eaves, 3-light flush casement windows with small panes, and plank door in middle. 2-light casement windows in dormers. Tall rectangular central chimney with ovolo capping to rectangular lower stage topped by 6 conjoined diagonal shafts. 2 similar dormers at rear with small window under eaves to light stair beside chimney. Interior has 2 heated rooms with back-to-back fireplaces, the room to S of stack is the hall with narrow, service room at S end originally 2 small rooms. Rear wall has surprisingly late Kentish framing with slightly curved tension braces. The roof is constructed with collar trusses and no tie-beams between gable ends. Trusses in partitions flanking the stack and at room divisions below. Upper chambers not originally heated. Face-halved bladed scarf in wallplate by stair. Chamfered axial floor beams and open fireplace lintols. A C17 house of special interest for its plan and construction. (Bailey (1980)21: RCHM Typescript).
Listing NGR: TL4060733115
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 433930
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Other
Bailey, (1980)
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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