The Windmill Public House

THE WINDMILL PUBLIC HOUSE, 18, ERMINE STREET

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Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1281291
Date first listed:
30-Sept-1983
List Entry Name:
The Windmill Public House
Statutory Address:
THE WINDMILL PUBLIC HOUSE, 18, ERMINE STREET
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Official list entry

Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1281291
Date first listed:
30-Sept-1983
List Entry Name:
The Windmill Public House
Statutory Address 1:
THE WINDMILL PUBLIC HOUSE, 18, ERMINE STREET

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.

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Corrections and minor amendments

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.

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Corrections and minor amendments

Location

Statutory Address:
THE WINDMILL PUBLIC HOUSE, 18, ERMINE STREET

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

County:
Hertfordshire
District:
East Hertfordshire (District Authority)
Parish:
Thundridge
National Grid Reference:
TL3591317261

Details

TL 3517
9/14

THUNDRIDGE
ERMINE STREET
(east side)
Thundridge
No 18 (The Windmill PH)

GV
II

House, now a public house. Late C16 altered c1800. Timber frame
plastered with colourwashed brick ground floor and hipped slate
roof. 2-storeys building set on a bank above the road facing N.
Left half a former side-jettied end-chimney plan house has 3
steps up to central door. External gable chimneys forward of the
ridge, and winding stair in SE corner. Right half has lower
ground floor as former service rooms and coach house with
probably jettied accommodation over. Front wall raised and new
continuous hipped roof built c1800. Probably at same time the
jetties were underbuilt in brick and the present windows
inserted. 4-windows front with flush box sash windows with 6/6
panes. Half-glazed panelled door with moulded surround and flat
moulded hood on bold shaped brackets. Plain boarded door and
double doors in right hand half. Weatherboarded extension on W
end set back. Interior has moulded dado rail in E room, and
large fielded panelling, a cross of cased beams, a large open
fireplace, and the former front corner post with a portion of the
jetty-bearer still in place, in the W room. Important focal
building on axis looking S up the main street towards the church.

Listing NGR: TL3591317261

Legacy

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

Legacy System number:
356021
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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