The Bury
THE BURY, BURY LANE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1347253
- Date first listed:
- 09-Jun-1952
- List Entry Name:
- The Bury
- Statutory Address:
- THE BURY, BURY LANE
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- Reference:
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1347253
- Date first listed:
- 09-Jun-1952
- List Entry Name:
- The Bury
- Statutory Address 1:
- THE BURY, BURY 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:
- THE BURY, BURY LANE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Hertfordshire
- District:
- North Hertfordshire (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Codicote
- National Grid Reference:
- TL 21880 18541
Details
TL 2118 CODICOTE BURY LANE (east side)
10/5 The Bury
9.6.52
- II*
House, now sheltered housing for old people. Soon afer 1659. Red brick. Built double pile. Machine tile hipped roofs behind C18 parapet. Sauare plan. 3 storeys over basement. Floor bands. Aluminium sash windows, 3 on each elevation. SW front has arched brick panels in the lower storeys and a 2-storeyed pilastered centre piece with Doric and Ionic orders on pedestals. Niches in outer bays. Top entablature with pediment and ball finials. Late C18 doorcase with pulvinated frieze and dentilled cornice. The roof shows 2 tall red brick chimney stacks with grouped square shafts. Lobby entrances to ground floor centre bays on NW and SE sides. Extremely good interior: large open-well staircase with tapering fluted balusters. Pendant newels have fretwork arch heads between them. Similar arch to front lobby. Original oak doors to 1st and 2nd floors with ovolo-moulded rails and muntins. Ground floor rooms with replacement panelling and exposed ceiling beams. Larqe c1978 rear extensions. (Pevsner (1977); RCHM Typescript)
Listing NGR: TL2188018541
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 161952
- 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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