Court House
COURT HOUSE, 33, HIGH STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1347082
- Date first listed:
- 09-Jun-1952
- List Entry Name:
- Court House
- Statutory Address:
- COURT HOUSE, 33, HIGH STREET
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1347082
- Date first listed:
- 09-Jun-1952
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 24-Oct-1988
- List Entry Name:
- Court House
- Statutory Address 1:
- COURT HOUSE, 33, 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:
- COURT HOUSE, 33, HIGH STREET
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Hertfordshire
- District:
- North Hertfordshire (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Offley
- National Grid Reference:
- TL 14344 27014
Details
OFFLEY HIGH STREET TL 1427 (East side) Great Offley
12/90 No. 33 9.6.52 (Court House (formerly listed as Post Office) GV II*
House. Late C14 open hall house with contemporary 2-storeys jettied crosswing on roadside to W, early C17 chimney and floor inserted in hall and front wall below jetty rebuilt leaving shallow jetty. Restored and rear crosswing added 1972-3. Timber frame roughcast, with upper floor of wings dark weatherboarded. Steep old red tile roofs. A 2-bays medieval hall with base-cruck central truss, spere-posts define cross-passage at E end with service rooms presumably on site of modern rear crosswing. Front range had central entrance on W with evidence for 2 rooms separated by a passage in the middle. Rooms probably a parlour and a shop. Chimney inserted in lower bay of hall backing onto cross-passage. The W front has a roughcast ground floor and dark weatherboarded 1st floor with a shallow jetty on 2 curved brackets. 2 windows to each floor and central entrance. 2-lights flush casements and horizontally boarded door. Gabled dormer to S roofslope of hall range. Interior has exposed frame and roof with hall only half floored now. Collar purlin roofs contemporary in both old parts with short square crown-posts with caps and bases of 3 chamfered mouldings, 4-way bracing, smoke-blackening (slighter in crosswing), and splayed and tabled undercut scarf joints with central square peg in arcade plates and shared wallplate/tie-beam at junction of ranges. Curved wind-braces from backs of heavy, base-cruck truss with collar and arched braces supporting collar carrying crown-post. Spere posts have pronounced jowls. Similar collar-purlin roof to W cross-wing of 2-bays with taller posts with same ornamental square part with cap and base moulded and heavy square-section 4-way bracing. Added purlin and inclined queen-post in each slope. Marks on heavy flat irregular cross-joists of floor for jetty-beam further back within room. Mortices for brackets to front now gone, and for a central passage giving onto a room on each side. Stair in position of present winding stair in NE corner of wing. Chamfered lintel to open fireplace in hall. A fine and complete C14 hall house. (Pevsner (1977)265: RCHM Typescript).
Listing NGR: TL1434427014
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 163100
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Pevsner, N, Cherry, B, The Buildings of England: Hertfordshire, (1977)
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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