Bear House
BEAR HOUSE, 77, HIGH STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1347312
- Date first listed:
- 27-May-1968
- List Entry Name:
- Bear House
- Statutory Address:
- BEAR HOUSE, 77, HIGH STREET
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1347312
- Date first listed:
- 27-May-1968
- List Entry Name:
- Bear House
- Statutory Address 1:
- BEAR HOUSE, 77, HIGH STREET
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:
- BEAR HOUSE, 77, HIGH STREET
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Hertfordshire
- District:
- North Hertfordshire (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Ashwell
- National Grid Reference:
- TL 26636 39607
Details
TL 2639 ASHWELL HIGH STREET (South side) Ashwell 8/33 No. 77 27.5.68 (Bear House)
GV II*
House, formerly farmhouse. Late C15 hall house with cross wings. Altered late C17 and C18 to form continuous range. Restored C19-20. Timber frame. Plastered walls. Plain tile roof. 2 storeys. 4½ bays. 4 windows, the 2 on right C19 sashes, the 2 on left glazing bar casements. To right of door is a 3-light diamond mullioned window of C16. The door itself is in original position at cross passage. Wide C15 pointed arch frame with plain wooden spandrels. To left of door the former service wing has an unusual quatrefoiled wooden ventilator band between floors. Left return wall has a 4-light blocked diamond mullioned window. Internally the hall was 2 bays to right of door; heightened to 2 storeys in late C17 when a lateral stack was inserted at rear. Bay to right, with C19 sashes, is an early C16 cross-wing addition. To right of this a late C17 or C18 half-bay addition. The left ground floor is partitioned into 2 rooms with a pair of ogee-headed doors. Fragmentary remains of an early C17 wall painting. (RCHM Typescript).
Listing NGR: TL2663639607
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 162164
- 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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