Number 6 and Forecourt Wall
NUMBER 6 AND FORECOURT WALL, CHURCH END
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1347515
- Date first listed:
- 22-Feb-1967
- List Entry Name:
- Number 6 and Forecourt Wall
- Statutory Address:
- NUMBER 6 AND FORECOURT WALL, CHURCH END
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1347515
- Date first listed:
- 22-Feb-1967
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 24-Jan-1984
- List Entry Name:
- Number 6 and Forecourt Wall
- Statutory Address 1:
- NUMBER 6 AND FORECOURT WALL, CHURCH END
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:
- NUMBER 6 AND FORECOURT WALL, CHURCH END
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Hertfordshire
- District:
- East Hertfordshire (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Braughing
- National Grid Reference:
- TL 39583 25168
Details
Braughing village TL 3925 BRAUGHING CHURCH END (east side)
9/27 No 6 and forecourt wall (formerly listed as The 22.2.67 Old Boys School)
GV II
House now a meeting room and house and forecourt wall. C16 or earlier (date 1574 carved on front) renovated in 1860. Exposed timber frame with close-studding, red brick herringbone nogging, and steep red tiled roof with decorative banding of pointed tiles. Red brick and knapped flint C19 forecourt wall linked to house. Former hall house with 2 jettied, gabled crosswings projecting to front (N). Large front-wall external lateral chimney in red brick with diaper pattern, stone shield dated 1860, and 2 diagonal shafts. 4-central arched wooden doorway on right with carved spandrels and plank door, and similar doorway into LH crosswing. Large external chimney at E end with diagonal shafts. Cusped pierced bargeboards to front gables. Wings hipped at rear. Bracketed oriel windows of little projection on both floors, with 2- and 3-light cast iron casements with elongated lozenge panel. Renovated in C19 as a village school. (RCHM (1911) 68).
Listing NGR: TL3958325168
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 161170
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
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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