BENGEO OLD HOUSE

BENGEO OLD HOUSE, ST LEONARDS ROAD

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Overview

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1268716
Date first listed:: 12-Apr-1973
List Entry Name:: BENGEO OLD HOUSE
Statutory Address:: BENGEO OLD HOUSE, ST LEONARDS ROAD

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1268716
Date first listed:: 12-Apr-1973
List Entry Name:: BENGEO OLD HOUSE
Statutory Address 1:: BENGEO OLD HOUSE, ST LEONARDS ROAD

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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Corrections and minor amendments

Location

Statutory Address:: BENGEO OLD HOUSE, ST LEONARDS ROAD

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

County:: Hertfordshire
District:: East Hertfordshire (District Authority)
Parish:: Hertford
National Grid Reference:: TL 33047 13609

Details

HERTFORD

TL3313NW ST LEONARD'S ROAD, Bengeo 817-1/14/288 (South side) 12/04/73 Bengeo Old House

GV II

Formerly known as: St Leonard's Bengeo. Former vicarage of St Leonard's Church (qv) which adjoins to north-west, now private house. Late C16, with C18, C19 and C20 alterations and extensions. Timber-framed and plastered, rendered brickwork, old tiled multi-gabled roofs. South elevation with irregular 7-bay front, 1 room deep. EXTERIOR: 2 storeys and attics, first floor has 7 sashes, mainly 12 pane, gable above window in third bay from right, ground floor has wood casement windows below segmental arches, 12-pane sash beneath gable and large early C19 French windows with moulded mullions and transoms and divided glazing beneath broad segmental arch at right. North elevation with projecting gables left and right (latter extended 1989), central projecting gable, brought forward 1989, over projecting ground floor porch. Recessed gable to left, and low pitched Welsh slated lean-to across front, infilling between projecting gables and central porch. Irregular fenestration, late C19 timber-framed porch with brick base half-glazed, leaded light, glazed sidelights, cambered embattled head with ornamental studding and pebbledash panels above, and oversailing open gabled roof supported on moulded consoles. Roof: 1 box casement dormer on left of south face, central red brick chimney, clustered square shafts, with oversailing courses and long orange clay pots, other chimneys rendered. INTERIOR: not inspected.

Listing NGR: TL3304713609

Legacy

The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.

Legacy System number:: 461515
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.