32-52, ERMINE STREET
32-52, ERMINE STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1341867
- Date first listed:
- 30-Sept-1983
- List Entry Name:
- 32-52, ERMINE STREET
- Statutory Address:
- 32-52, ERMINE STREET
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1341867
- Date first listed:
- 30-Sept-1983
- List Entry Name:
- 32-52, ERMINE STREET
- Statutory Address 1:
- 32-52, 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.
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:
- 32-52, 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:
- TL 35928 17346
Details
TL 3517 THUNDRIDGE ERMINE STREET (east side) Thundridge 9/15 Nos 32 to 52 (even)
GV II
Model estate houses, 1864, 1888, and 1901 on datestones. Stone plaque at Nos 44/46 reads "18 CH 64/ THESE COTTAGES WERE ERECTED TO THE MEMORY OF/CAROLINE HANBURY/THE WIFE OF ROBERT HANBURY JUNIOR M P/WHO DIED OCT 24TH 1863/FOR ME TO LIVE AS CHRIST/AND TO DIE IS GAIN". Stone plaque at Nos 32/34 reads "ESH/&/AH/1888", and at Nos 50/52 "ESH & AH/1901". Fronts and ends in red brick, varying in shade for each period, with yellow brick band at upper floor level and steep slate sill to each window. Rear walls uniformly in yellow stock brick with segmental arches. Red tiled roofs. Double-pile plan with separate parallel pitched roofs for front and rear parts. Handed pairs of houses entered from a recessed porch with a single opening from the street. Oldest group in the middle Nos 40 - 48 with two and a half pairs of houses. No 48 on the left is separated by a passage with an arched entrance. Second group Nos 32 - 38 are 2 pairs adjacent and uphill to the right. Third group Nos 50 - 52 are a single pair at the left hand, adjoining No 48. The design of the 1864 group is repeated in the later groups. 2-storeys. Chamfered plinth stepped down slope, symmetrical front to early pair with central entrance under pointed flat arch with chamfered and shouldered jambs. One flat pointed arched window on each floor of each house, and twin flat pointed gables. Small paned 2-light casement windows with top light above transome. An unusually urban housing type built for the Hanbury family of Poles. Important to the character of the village street.
Listing NGR: TL3592817346
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 356022
- 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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