The Countryman Public House (Opposite Chipping Hall)
THE COUNTRYMAN PUBLIC HOUSE (OPPOSITE CHIPPING HALL), HIGH ROAD (A10)
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1347744
- Date first listed:
- 13-Dec-1984
- List Entry Name:
- The Countryman Public House (Opposite Chipping Hall)
- Statutory Address:
- THE COUNTRYMAN PUBLIC HOUSE (OPPOSITE CHIPPING HALL), HIGH ROAD (A10)
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- Reference:
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1347744
- Date first listed:
- 13-Dec-1984
- List Entry Name:
- The Countryman Public House (Opposite Chipping Hall)
- Statutory Address 1:
- THE COUNTRYMAN PUBLIC HOUSE (OPPOSITE CHIPPING HALL), HIGH ROAD (A10)
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 COUNTRYMAN PUBLIC HOUSE (OPPOSITE CHIPPING HALL), HIGH ROAD (A10)
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Hertfordshire
- District:
- East Hertfordshire (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Buckland and Chipping
- National Grid Reference:
- TL3557131968
Details
TL 33 SE BUCKLAND HIGH ROAD (A10)
(East side)
Chipping
1/45 The Countryman PH
- (opposite Chipping Hall)
GV II
House, now a PH. C16 or early C17, mid/late C17 interior chimney and
inserted floor in middle part, S part rebuilt in early C18 (probably
when sold in 1719 as the Red Lion PH to Mr. Beale), N part rebuilt in
C18, W and S sides of building cased in brick and gable added to N part
probably when adjoining cottages cleared in 1913. Name changed in later
C20. Timber frame roughcast but W front and S end cased in painted
brick. Steep pitched roof with rear outshut, thatched in Buckler dwg of
1841 (HRO) but now slated. Gabled tiled porch. A 2-storeys, 3-cells,
internal chimney plan house facing W with shorter rear outshut, chimney
a third from S end, and higher floor levels in N part with C19 external
gable chimney. 2-bay middle part entered next N end, with back to back
fireplaces in stack. 3 windows W front has paired recessed Gd floor sash
windows joined under segmental arches, and 2-light casement windows
over, all with small panes. Glazed gabled porch with high brick sill.
Single-storey flat-roofed small block against N gable. Interior has
exposed timbers, with jowled posts, cut away curved braces on 1st floor,
straight tension braces in rear wall, chamfered axial beams and squared
joists on ground floor, heavy studs of partition wall with sill-plate in
middle part and later cross-beam on higher N part. Good, chamfered,
3-centred arched late C17 red brick fireplace to upper room at S end.
Lintel to open fireplace to bar said to have been inscribed '1743' but
now recently carved with date 1663 in relief. (Branch Johnson (1962) 46).
Listing NGR: TL3557131968
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 160266
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Branch Johnson, W, Hertfordshire Inns A handbook of Old Hertfordshire Inns and Beer Houses, (1962), 46
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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