Tanners
5, HIGH STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1347692
- Date first listed:
- 24-Jan-1967
- List Entry Name:
- Tanners
- Statutory Address:
- 5, HIGH STREET
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- Reference:
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1347692
- Date first listed:
- 24-Jan-1967
- List Entry Name:
- Tanners
- Statutory Address 1:
- 5, HIGH STREET
- Statutory Address 2:
- TANNERS, 7, 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:
- 5, HIGH STREET
- Statutory Address:
- TANNERS, 7, HIGH STREET
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Hertfordshire
- District:
- East Hertfordshire (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Hunsdon
- National Grid Reference:
- TL 41633 14054
Details
TL 4114 HUNSDON HIGH STREET (west side) Hunsdon village
7/16 No. 5 No 7 (Tanners) 24.1.67
GV II*
House, now 2 houses. C16 or earlier, timberframed and plastered H-plan hall house: altered in the later C17 to a lobby-entry, central chimney house with chimney at upper end of hall, floor inserted in hall, roofs of hall and parlour wing rebuilt and spiral stair in service wing (now No 5). 3 houses in later C19: now 2 with hall and N wing as No 7. 2 storeys, 3 windows asymmetrical front with 2 storeys cross wings projecting to front and back. Steep old red tile gabled roofs with cusped bargeboards. Large C17 cruciform central chimney (top rebuilt) and later side chimney to S wing. Single and 2 storeys C19 additions at rear of hall range, lower slated. 3-light leaded mullioned windows with iron plate casements to cross wings (no 5 has an attic) and a 4-light similar window on each floor of the hall range. To right of the window, a fine C18 8-panel raised and fielded door with moulded architrave and flat hood enriched - with egg and dart carving. On N flank of N wing a blocked entrance with moulded surround and enriched console brackets. A series of soot blackened rafters, presumably from the hall range, are re-used in the 3-bay clasped purlin roof of the N cross wing. The hall has a butt purlin roof with collar trusses set on older walls having a wide bay flanked by_narrow bays for chimney and former cross passage. The S wing retains its C16 wind braced side purlin roof. The rear wall of the N cross wing has heavy straight tension braces exposed inside on the upper floor. Well-finished 3-bay structure with chamfered and stopped posts, rails and cross and axial beams on both floors. Divided into a 2-bay heated front room and l-bay unheated rear room on each floor. The hall (dining room) as a 2-panel door to the staircase, a scratch moulded 8-panel oak door to the lobby (both with fine brass case locks) and a cased axial beam and moulded dado rail. Modern fire surround. Chamber over the hall has chamfered and stopped ceiling beams, swept jowled posts, C18 2-panel cupboard door and ovolo moulded fire surround. Stepped jowled post in passage chamfered and stopped. Marked on the 1842 Tithe Map as a farmhouse named Tanners House, surrounded by farm buildings. A C16 or earlier timberframed former hall house of exceptional interest with many historic features. Centrepiece of a picturesque group at the S part of the village Conservation Area.
Listing NGR: TL4163314054
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 159977
- 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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