2, SOPWELL LANE
2, SOPWELL LANE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1347166
- Date first listed:
- 27-Aug-1971
- List Entry Name:
- 2, SOPWELL LANE
- Statutory Address:
- 2, SOPWELL LANE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1347166
- Date first listed:
- 27-Aug-1971
- List Entry Name:
- 2, SOPWELL LANE
- Statutory Address 1:
- 2, SOPWELL 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:
- 2, SOPWELL LANE
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 14667 06887
Details
SOPWELL LANE 1. (South Side) 1582 No 2
TL 1406 NE 14/111
II*
2. Incorporated with No 37 Holywell Hill. Formerly Common Lodging House. C16 long, timber framed building under high pitched, tiled roof. Stout, close studding on overhanging 1st floor with visible beam ends. Plaster filling. 2 storeys, 8 windows. Brick ground floor and brick plinth. The 3 left bays are plastered over on 1st floor and have later sash windows with glazing bars in flush, box frames, and a C19 shop front on ground floor. Close studding visible in right 4 bays of ground floor. Ground floor windows are later sashes with glazing bins except for one wood-mullioned casement at right. 2 Cl9 doors and one double carriage door, all in Gothic style, inserted on ground floor. The 5 bays at right on 1st floor have leaded, 2-light casement windows, one possibly original. Inside, heavy exposed timbers including some chamfered and moulded beams of chestnut; and a stone fireplace with Tudor arch.
Listing NGR: TL1466706887
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 163442
- 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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