The White Hart
23, HOLYWELL HILL
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1347142
- Date first listed:
- 08-May-1950
- List Entry Name:
- The White Hart
- Statutory Address:
- 23, HOLYWELL HILL
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1347142
- Date first listed:
- 08-May-1950
- List Entry Name:
- The White Hart
- Statutory Address 1:
- 23, HOLYWELL HILL
- Statutory Address 2:
- THE WHITE HART, 25, HOLYWELL HILL
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:
- 23, HOLYWELL HILL
- Statutory Address:
- THE WHITE HART, 25, HOLYWELL HILL
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Hertfordshire
- District:
- St. Albans (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Non Civil Parish
- National Grid Reference:
- TL 14680 06991
Details
HOLYWELL HILL 1. (East Side) 1582 No 23 No 25 (The White Hart) TL 1406 NE 14/103 8.5.50.
II* GV
2. Late C15 range of timber framed buildings. With No 25. No 23: 2 storeys and attic, 2 windows. High pitched, tiled roof with gabled dormer. Deep overhang above 1st floor window. Plastered front with rusticated quoin at left. 1st floor sash Windows in slightly projecting moulded frames. Ground floor neo-classical reproduction shop front. Roof continuous with roof of No 25. With No 23. No 25: Main block of 2 storeys and attic, 3 windows. Fairly close studded timber framing with thin scantlings and tension braces, much restored. High pitched, tiled roof with 3 gabled dormers. Walls filled with plaster. 4-light wood mullioned and transomed casement windows (casements modern). Later, stone-coped, brick plinth. Recessed, central door under Tudor arch. Left-hand section over carriageway, 2 storeys, one window, jettied at 1st floor and attic level, with close studded, thick timbers on lst floor, also canted bay window with mullions and transoms. Roof continuous with roof of No 23. Cl? rear extension with high-pitched, hipped, tiled roof.
Nos 1 to 25 (odd) form a group.
Listing NGR: TL1468006991
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 163329
- 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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