The Old Bell House (On South Corner With Hare Street Road)
THE OLD BELL HOUSE (ON SOUTH CORNER WITH HARE STREET ROAD)
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1347769
- Date first listed:
- 04-Oct-1973
- List Entry Name:
- The Old Bell House (On South Corner With Hare Street Road)
- Statutory Address:
- THE OLD BELL HOUSE (ON SOUTH CORNER WITH HARE STREET ROAD)
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1347769
- Date first listed:
- 04-Oct-1973
- List Entry Name:
- The Old Bell House (On South Corner With Hare Street Road)
- Statutory Address 1:
- THE OLD BELL HOUSE (ON SOUTH CORNER WITH HARE STREET ROAD)
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 OLD BELL HOUSE (ON SOUTH CORNER WITH HARE STREET ROAD)
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Hertfordshire
- District:
- East Hertfordshire (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Hormead
- National Grid Reference:
- TL 38990 29695
Details
TL 32 NE HORMEAD HARE STREET (West side)
3/80 The Old Bell House 4.10.73 (on S corner with Hare Street Road)
GV II
House. Early C16 former crosswing at N incorporated in mid C17 rebuilding of hall range with stair turret and rear kitchen, S end C18 additions for inn. Restored 1975. Timber frame on brick sill, roughcast with steep old red tile roofs. A 2-storeys, 3-cells, internal chimney, lobby entry plan house facing E on corner site. 2-bay S extension at full height but different floor levels, and 2 storeys rear kitchen wing with large external gable chimney. Hipped roof shallow stair turret behind stack of main range. Chimney a third from N end with parlour at N. Frame of lower C16 crosswing exposed complete up to wall plates during works in 1975 heightened in C17 as part of general rebuild. E front has 4 windows on each floor. 3-light flush casement windows with a canted oriel to left of door. The interior has axial beams, stair rising from parlour at N, but smaller stair in kitchen wing to chamber over and to hall range chambers. C18 S part designed with a high room over a semi basement, probably a cellar. Formerly The Bell PH. (RCHN Typescript).
Listing NGR: TL3899029695
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 160301
- 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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