42 AND 44, TROOPER ROAD
42 AND 44, TROOPER ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1342215
- Date first listed:
- 30-Nov-1966
- List Entry Name:
- 42 AND 44, TROOPER ROAD
- Statutory Address:
- 42 AND 44, TROOPER ROAD
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1342215
- Date first listed:
- 30-Nov-1966
- List Entry Name:
- 42 AND 44, TROOPER ROAD
- Statutory Address 1:
- 42 AND 44, TROOPER 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:
- 42 AND 44, TROOPER ROAD
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Hertfordshire
- District:
- Dacorum (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Aldbury
- National Grid Reference:
- SP9640912216
Details
ALDBURY TROOPER ROAD
SP 9612
(West side)
12/30 Nos. 42, and 44
30.11.66
GV II
Meeting hall or Church House, converted to farmhouse in C17, now 2
houses. C16, converted with large S gable chimney, cellar, rear outshut
and present main stair in later C17. N gable chimney C19 possibly when
divided. Timber frame on black stucco sill, roughcast panels to jettied
1st floor, painted brick infill to ground floor. Roughcast rear outshut.
Steep old red tile roof with rear catslide extension over outshut. A 2
storeys, attics and cellar house facing E. Continuous jetty on E side to
road. 3 windows to 1st floor and 2 windows and 2 doors on ground floor.
Flush casement windows of 3-lights with rectangular leaded glazing and
old iron opening lights. 4-panel, flush beaded, C19 doors in heavy
frames. Cased jetty with boarded soffit. Wide-spaced studs with
staggered mid-height rail. Front has 3 structural bays with reversed,
curved tension brace in N bay. S gable on upper floor has a large
tension brace from the rear corner post. Very large external S gable
chimney in English bond with tumbled offsets, flues to both floors, and
large tiled oven extension to front. The 3-bays 1st floor was originally
open to the clasped-purlin roof, with a framed partition dividing off
one bay. Mortices in beam suggest a similar division of the ground
floor. No trace of any original form of heating, therefore non-domestic.
Wide S end ground floor fireplace has recessed jambs with shelves.
Chamfered and stopped lintel to fireplace in chamber over. Cellar under
S end. Rear outshut has diagonal corner fireplace at SE corner. (RCHM
Typescript: Davis (1980) No. 27).
Listing NGR: SP9640912216
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 355667
- 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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