The Bucks Head Public House
THE BUCKS HEAD PUBLIC HOUSE, STEVENAGE ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1347465
- Date first listed:
- 27-May-1968
- List Entry Name:
- The Bucks Head Public House
- Statutory Address:
- THE BUCKS HEAD PUBLIC HOUSE, STEVENAGE ROAD
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1347465
- Date first listed:
- 27-May-1968
- List Entry Name:
- The Bucks Head Public House
- Statutory Address 1:
- THE BUCKS HEAD PUBLIC HOUSE, STEVENAGE ROAD
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 BUCKS HEAD PUBLIC HOUSE, STEVENAGE ROAD
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Hertfordshire
- District:
- North Hertfordshire (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Wymondley
- National Grid Reference:
- TL 21454 27405
Details
WYMONDLEY STEVENAGE ROAD TL 2127 (South side) Little Wymondley
11/169 The Bucks Head P.H. 27.5.68 GV II
Inn, now a public house. Late C16 or early C17 built for Nedham family, post-Reformation Lords of the Manor, as Black Buck's Head Inn named after their crest. Altered in C17. Sold by family in 1712. Timber frame on brick sill, panelled roughcast with plain margins. Exposed timber framing on E side. Steep old red tile roofs. A 2-storeys and cellar, H-plan, 3-cells, lobby-entry, internal chimney plan inn facing N with only the gabled and jettied 1st floor of the 2 wings projecting to the front, and the staircase to the rear of the stack. Middle part of N front has entrance up steps with boarded door in heavy frame next the W wing, deep coved eaves cornice, and shallow rectangular 2-storeys bay window. Canted bay window below jetty of E wing, with 3-lights casement window with small panes to 1st floor of each wing and ground floor of W wing. Interior has exposed framework with jowled posts, axial chamfered and hollow-stopped beams to 2-bays hall part, old joists remaining in part of floor in E wing, and plain squared joists over the W wing. Large internal chimney serving hall and W wing built in stages. Clasped-purlin roofs. Pegged bracket supporting E end of axial floor beam in hall and eaves-cove suggest the hall range was heightened in the C17 to make 2 full floors. The fireplaces serving the W wing and the 1st floor are probably later additions. (RCHM (1911)149: VCH (1912)186-7: inf Mr. Farris).
Listing NGR: TL2145427405
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 162781
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Doubleday, A, The Victoria History of the County of Hertford, (1912), 186-7
Other
Inventory of the Historical Monuments of Hertfordshire, (1910)
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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