53, HIGH STREET
53, HIGH STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1347694
- Date first listed:
- 24-Jan-1967
- List Entry Name:
- 53, HIGH STREET
- Statutory Address:
- 53, HIGH STREET
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1347694
- Date first listed:
- 24-Jan-1967
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 19-Sept-1984
- List Entry Name:
- 53, HIGH STREET
- Statutory Address 1:
- 53, 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:
- 53, 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 41767 14124
Details
TL 4114 HUNSDON HIGH STREET (west side) ) Hunsdon village
7/25 No 53 (Formerly listed 24.1.67 as No 51 and No 53)
GV II
2 houses, now one house. Late C17 or early C18, altered and extended to rear in early C19, made 1 house c1973. Timberframed roughcast with steep old red tile roof. A long low 2 storeys range set back between No 49 and No 55. A carriageway runs through the Ground floor at the N end and has a room over it. The remainder of the range was formerly 2 houses of mirrored plan with 1 large room on each floor, end chimneys and a lower shallow 2 storeys rear extension under a slate roof. The upper floor frontage has 3 widely spaced C19 2-light wooden casement windows. There is a continuous dripboard on small brackets along the frontage just above the heads of the Ground floor windows. These are 4 grouped 2-light taller wooden casements. Panelled double doors with Gothic panels set in a heavy timber frame close the carriageway and give access to the entrance to its side wall. The interior has exposed oak framing and squared pine floor beams. An interesting timberframed village house, incorporated as part of a uniform estate village planning scheme by the Calvert family in the early C19. An essential part of this picturesque planned group in the middle of the village Conservation Area.
Listing NGR: TL4176714124
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 159986
- 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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