Vale House
VALE HOUSE, 43, COWBRIDGE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1268922
- Date first listed:
- 12-Apr-1973
- List Entry Name:
- Vale House
- Statutory Address:
- VALE HOUSE, 43, COWBRIDGE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1268922
- Date first listed:
- 12-Apr-1973
- List Entry Name:
- Vale House
- Statutory Address 1:
- VALE HOUSE, 43, COWBRIDGE
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:
- VALE HOUSE, 43, COWBRIDGE
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 32270 12836
Details
HERTFORD
TL3212NW COWBRIDGE
817-1/16/53 (South side)
12/04/73 No.43
Vale House
II
House, now offices. C17, with C18 frontage block, altered C19
and C20. Colourwashed brick, stucco over timber framing, brown
stock brick, Welsh slated roof above eaves with paired
brackets to front; old tiled roofs at rear. Red and brown
brick chimneystacks.
EXTERIOR: front has 5 tall 12 pane recessed sash windows with
concealed sash boxes, below rubbed flat arches with scalloped
soffit. Stucco sills, with panelled aprons below all except
the central window. 5 similar windows on ground floor,
right-hand window now infilled. Plat band at first-floor
level. Irregular fenestration on north side elevation.
Entrance in tile roofed outshut, with large triple sash window
on first floor above doorway with panelled door. Doorcase has
panelled Doric pilasters and flat projecting hood with fascia
frieze and moulded cornice, supported on slender cast-iron
colonnettes replacing columns. To right of entrance is lower
C17 timber-framed and plastered block, much altered, with
projecting C19 west wing, with higher roof line. C17 wing has
plastered gable and 3 narrow sash windows on first floor and
large projecting brick canted bay window on ground floor.
INTERIOR: much altered with some C18 cornices in ground floor
room, C19 fireplaces, early C19 open string stair with
bracketed treads, moulded hardwood handrail with wreath, and
stick balusters. Roof over long C17 outshoot has pegged halved
rafters with collars, and butt purlins.
Listing NGR: TL3227012836
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 461301
- 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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