HOWGILLS (SOCIETY OF FRIENDS MEETING HOUSE)

HOWGILLS (SOCIETY OF FRIENDS MEETING HOUSE), 42, SOUTH VIEW

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1347287
Date first listed:: 07-Sep-1979
List Entry Name:: HOWGILLS (SOCIETY OF FRIENDS MEETING HOUSE)
Statutory Address:: HOWGILLS (SOCIETY OF FRIENDS MEETING HOUSE), 42, SOUTH VIEW

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Date:: 2000-09-09
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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1347287
Date first listed:: 07-Sep-1979
List Entry Name:: HOWGILLS (SOCIETY OF FRIENDS MEETING HOUSE)
Statutory Address 1:: HOWGILLS (SOCIETY OF FRIENDS MEETING HOUSE), 42, SOUTH VIEW

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.

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This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

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.

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Corrections and minor amendments

Location

Statutory Address:: HOWGILLS (SOCIETY OF FRIENDS MEETING HOUSE), 42, SOUTH VIEW

The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.

County:: Hertfordshire
District:: North Hertfordshire (District Authority)
Parish:: Non Civil Parish
National Grid Reference:: TL 21903 31945

Details

SOUTH VIEW 1. 5255 No 42 'Howgills' (Society of Friends Meeting House) TL 2131 NE 11/143 II 2. 1907 by Bennett and Bidwell. Public hall designed in the free-style manner of this firm of architects. The Meeting Room is based on "Briggflatts" in Yorkshire. Two storeys. Irregular facade of 3 bays with projecting, central entrance bay with gable. Tile roof with hips and gable. Tall brick stacks with moulded caps; chimney stack on front facade with weathered offsets. Roughcast walls. Stone, mullioned, casement windows with leaded lights and tile labels. Recessed, segmental-arched entrance with boarded double doors. Plaque in Art Nouveau style in porch.

Listing NGR: TL2190331945

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Legacy System number:: 161918
Legacy System:: LBS

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This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.