The Brown Bear Public House
THE BROWN BEAR PUBLIC HOUSE, 14, THE STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1296288
- Date first listed:
- 22-Feb-1967
- List Entry Name:
- The Brown Bear Public House
- Statutory Address:
- THE BROWN BEAR PUBLIC HOUSE, 14, THE STREET
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1296288
- Date first listed:
- 22-Feb-1967
- List Entry Name:
- The Brown Bear Public House
- Statutory Address 1:
- THE BROWN BEAR PUBLIC HOUSE, 14, THE 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:
- THE BROWN BEAR PUBLIC HOUSE, 14, THE STREET
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Hertfordshire
- District:
- East Hertfordshire (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Braughing
- National Grid Reference:
- TL 39752 25133
Details
Braughing village TL 3925 BRAUGHING THE STREET (east side)
9/44 No 14 (The Brown Bear PH) 22.2.67
GV II*
House, now an inn. Early C16, altered in C17, extended as PH in C19. Timber frame roughcast with old red tile roofs. Originally a T-plan house with an open hall and wide, 2-storeys, jettied crosswing at S (service rooms). Large central chimney and floor in hall, and partition on upper floor of crosswing inserted in C17, and upper floor at N end rebuilt as a narrow crosswing. Single storey range added along S side of crosswing in C19, with a projecting gabled front and lateral chimney in the angle with the jettied crosswing. Irregular W front with one and a half storeys centre and gabled 2-storeys wings. 4-light flush casement window to hall with 2-light gabled dormer in the roof slope, and roof carried down over an enclosed porch in line with the recessed lower floor of the crosswing. This has a 3-light casement window on the 1st floor and a canted bay sash window beelow the jetty. The single-storey C19 wing has a cusped bargeboard, a 3-light casement and 2-light casement on the N return. The N end has a 2-light casement to the upper floor. Central chimney of 4 engaged shafts (upper part rebuilt). Interior has a plain crown-post with 2-way struts over the hall range, and a C17 chamfered doorframe with bar stops in the inserted partition on the 1st floor of the crosswing. (RCHM Typescript)
Listing NGR: TL3975225133
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 161250
- 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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