41, HIGH STREET

41, HIGH STREET

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Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1347693
Date first listed:
24-Jan-1967
List Entry Name:
41, HIGH STREET
Statutory Address:
41, HIGH STREET

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1347693
Date first listed:
24-Jan-1967
Date of most recent amendment:
19-Sept-1984
List Entry Name:
41, HIGH STREET
Statutory Address 1:
41, 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:
41, 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 41737 14111

Details

TL 4114 HUNSDON HIGH STREET (west side) Hunsdon village

7/22 No 41 (Formerly listed as 24.1.67 Ivy Cottage) )

GV II

House. 1837 (on large panel recessed in side chimney on left). Sawn timber frame with brick nogging, plastered. Steep old red tile roof. A small 2 storeys house linked to Village Hall group at right by a high plastered screen wall,- and presenting a symmetrical jettied gable end to the street. Modern rear extension not of special interest. Tall external red brick chimney on left side with datestone. Single storey canted bay window with tiled roof on side facing Village Hall. Central 6- panel door with fielded panels and small upright casement window to each side. 2-light leaded casement window over with label. Heavy cusped bargeboard. A pair of very richly carved early C18 consoles enriched with undercut swags and shells are re-used to support the ends of the front jetty and are its most notable architectural feature. Deep narrow joists carry the jetty. This jettied house is the left hand pavilion of a formal symmetrical composition centred on the former school (now the Village Hall). Carved early C18 brackets support the jetty of No 49, the corresponding pavilion on the righthand qv. This estate village town planning scheme was carried out when the Calvert family owned Hunsdon House. An historic early C19 estate house with features of special interest. An essential element in a formal symmetrical group centred on the Village Hall.

Listing NGR: TL4173714111

Legacy

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

Legacy System number:
159983
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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