White Posts

WHITE POSTS, HIGH STREET

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Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1347409
Date first listed:
27-May-1968
List Entry Name:
White Posts
Statutory Address:
WHITE POSTS, HIGH STREET

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1347409
Date first listed:
27-May-1968
List Entry Name:
White Posts
Statutory Address 1:
WHITE POSTS, 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.

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Corrections and minor amendments

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.

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Corrections and minor amendments

Location

Statutory Address:
WHITE POSTS, 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:
Barley
National Grid Reference:
TL 39917 38717

Details

BARLEY HIGH STREET TL 3938 (West side) Barley

7/99 White Posts 27.5.68

GV II

House. Mid to late C16 with C18 additions. Restored 1976. Timber frame, roughcast. Steeply pitched tiled roof. 4 bays, 2 storeys with 1 bay 1 storey additions at both ends. Continuous jetty to front on original block. Entrance to left. C20 2 light small pane flush frame casements. Sprocket eaves. Central and right windows are broadly spaced with a ridge stack between. Right end has an originally external stack, now in a 1 storey gabled outshut set back slightly. Similar outshut to left has a stack at left end. C20 casements to rear, a gabled dormer to rear of right outshut. Interior: original 4 centred arched doorcase, inner hollow and outer cyma mouldings, herringbone in English bond fireplace, chamfered bearers, stop chamfered joists, jowled posts, first floor curved passing tension braces, clasped purlin roof. (RCHM Typescript).

Listing NGR: TL3991738717

Legacy

The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.

Legacy System number:
162555
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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