12, HIGH STREET
12, HIGH STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1295967
- Date first listed:
- 19-Oct-1951
- List Entry Name:
- 12, HIGH STREET
- Statutory Address:
- 12, HIGH STREET
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- Date:
- 2002-05-21
- Reference:
- IOE01/06618/12
- Rights:
- © Mr A. Gude. Source: Historic England Archive
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1295967
- Date first listed:
- 19-Oct-1951
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 06-Jul-1984
- List Entry Name:
- 12, HIGH STREET
- Statutory Address 1:
- 12, HIGH 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.
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:
- 12, HIGH STREET
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Hertfordshire
- District:
- East Hertfordshire (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Buntingford
- National Grid Reference:
- TL3627729431
Details
TL 3629
7/8
BUNTINGFORD
HIGH STREET (east side)
No 12
(formerly listed as No 12 Cheriton)
19.10.51
GV
II
House. C16, refronted and interior modernised in early C18, C19
parallel rear range and kitchen wing linking to C16 and later
barn range running E. Timber frames on stucco plinths, plastered
parapeted street front facing W, but painted brick parallel rear
range and kitchen, and added facade to barn range which is dark
weatherboarded to N side and E end. Steep old red tile roofs
generally, but lower pitched slate roof to parallel rear range.
A long 2-storeys and attics, 5 windows symmetrical house with a
room extending over the high carriageway to the right. A 2-cell
central passage plan imposed on an older building probably
formerly having a continuous front jetty. A large central
chimney backing onto the through passage serves the N part. A
small S-gable chimney serves the S part. Former 3-bay C16
building and 2-bay C18 barn linked to house by C19 extension, now
part of rear range. Front has ambitious C18 facade with moulded
cornice, wooden rusticated quoins, flush box sash windows, with
6/6 panes, moulded surrounds with triple keystones and bracketed
sills, aprons to upper windows, central doorcase with pilastered
Gibbs surround, open pediment, cusped radial fanlight, and 6-
panel raised and fielded door. Heavy double gates to carriageway
disguised as a rusticated screen with similar 6-panel fielded
doorway in bolection surround. Interior has 2-panel ovolo moulded
doors with H-hinges, plaster cornices, Gibbs type archway in
entrance passage. Remains of wattle and daub in attics but roof
trusses renewed in C19.
Listing NGR: TL3627729431
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 159750
- 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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