Providence House
PROVIDENCE HOUSE, ALBURY ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1290771
- Date first listed:
- 30-Apr-1985
- List Entry Name:
- Providence House
- Statutory Address:
- PROVIDENCE HOUSE, ALBURY ROAD
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1290771
- Date first listed:
- 30-Apr-1985
- List Entry Name:
- Providence House
- Statutory Address 1:
- PROVIDENCE HOUSE, ALBURY ROAD
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:
- PROVIDENCE HOUSE, ALBURY ROAD
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Hertfordshire
- District:
- East Hertfordshire (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Little Hadham
- National Grid Reference:
- TL 44041 22802
Details
TL 4422 LITTLE HADHAM ALBURY ROAD (east side) Little Hadham-on-Ash
8/5 Providence House
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GV II
House. Late C17, altered in early C19 and narrow lean-to added, small single storey E extension 1979. Long, 2 storeys and attic, 4 windows white plastered house facing S with gable end to street. Timber frame plastered under long red tiled gabled roof. External W gable chimney and adjacent Ground floor cased in painted brick. Formerly 3-unit probably central chimney, lobby entry plan, with parlour at W and service room at E end. Converted in early C19 by removal of chimneystack, throwing service room into middle room and making spacious entrance hall with new staircase on site of chimney by partitioning off W end of middle room. Pair of doors lead off rear of this hall to new shallow lean-to service rooms. Small fireplace added at E end with chimney at SE corner. External gable chimney added to heat parlour. Clasped purlin roof with thin timbers and high-set chamfered purlins at E end to accommodate an attic room. Asymmetrical S front has Yorkshire sliding casements to 1st floor and 2 square bay windows with casement lights. Hipped tiled roofs with lefthand roof extended over 4-panel flush beaded door, with shaped brackets for an earlier hood. Stop-chamfered axial beam in parlour. Chamfered axial beam extends through rest of Ground floor. Wall plate has face halved bladed scarf joints. Said to have been used as a village school and to have been thatched up to present century.
Listing NGR: TL4404122802
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 394478
- 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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