Crabtree House
CRABTREE HOUSE, 2, CRABTREE LANE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1347109
- Date first listed:
- 24-Oct-1988
- List Entry Name:
- Crabtree House
- Statutory Address:
- CRABTREE HOUSE, 2, CRABTREE LANE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1347109
- Date first listed:
- 24-Oct-1988
- List Entry Name:
- Crabtree House
- Statutory Address 1:
- CRABTREE HOUSE, 2, CRABTREE LANE
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:
- CRABTREE HOUSE, 2, CRABTREE LANE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Hertfordshire
- District:
- North Hertfordshire (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Pirton
- National Grid Reference:
- TL 14670 31746
Details
PIRTON CRABTREE LANE TL 1431 (North side)
7/144 No. 2 - (Crabtree House)
- II
House. Late C16, altered later. Timber frame on black stuccoed sill, roughcast. Steep old red tile roofs. A 2-storeys, L-shaped house set back from road facing E, with long, slightly lower, N crosswing. Stair wing in rear angle, and large internal chimney at the junction of the wings. Later internal S gable chimney. 2-bays hall range with chimney probably built in former cross-passage. Crosswing has 2 rooms on each floor with lobby between. Probably had lobby entrance by stack before present 2 entrances formed. E front has a door with gabled tiled open porch next LH corner and in middle of gable end of crosswing. 3 3-light casement windows to 1st floor and small window in line with central chimney with 4 conjoined tall diagonal shafts. 2 shafts to matching S gable chimney. Interior has jowled posts, long straight tension braces in walls and cross-walls. Clasped-purlin roofs. Plank doors with old iron fittings. Segmental arched chamfered brick fireplace to chamber over hall. (RCHM Typescript).
Listing NGR: TL1467031746
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 163154
- 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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