The Hand and Crown Public House
THE HAND AND CROWN PUBLIC HOUSE, 17, HIGH WYCH ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1347841
- Date first listed:
- 02-Oct-1981
- List Entry Name:
- The Hand and Crown Public House
- Statutory Address:
- THE HAND AND CROWN PUBLIC HOUSE, 17, HIGH WYCH ROAD
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- Date:
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- Reference:
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1347841
- Date first listed:
- 02-Oct-1981
- List Entry Name:
- The Hand and Crown Public House
- Statutory Address 1:
- THE HAND AND CROWN PUBLIC HOUSE, 17, HIGH WYCH 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 HAND AND CROWN PUBLIC HOUSE, 17, HIGH WYCH ROAD
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Hertfordshire
- District:
- East Hertfordshire (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Sawbridgeworth
- National Grid Reference:
- TL 47429 14172
Details
HIGH WYCH ROAD 1. 5253 (South Side) No 17 (The Hand and Crown PH) TL 474 141:6/17 II GV 2. C17 incorporating C16 crosswing on E. 2 storeys. Timberframe plastered under steep old red tile roof gabled to E and W ends and with 3 large gables to front and rear. 2 storey gabled and jettied porch in line with large chimney stack at junction of former E crosswing with later parts to W rising through rear slope of roof. Stack surmounted by engaged square shafts. Jacobean well stair with bulbous pendants, moulded string and heavy turned balusters placed between entrance door and stack. 3 rooms in line, baffle entry plan with large internal gable stack at W end in room one step up from hall with remains of partition between. C16 crosswing heightened by 3 feet and under C17 longitudinal roof. It has axial close studded partition on 1st floor and may have been service end of re-arranged house. Gd floor extended here a little to N in C18 to accommodate a corner fireplace. Modern single storey extension on E end. 3 window front, flush box sashes with 6/6 and 8/8 panes. Brick plinth. Single storey rear extension. Modern wooden windows at rear. Interior features on Gd floor include a chamfered cross beam with ogee stops over the central room and paired axial beams and crossbeam in front of fireplace in W room all chamfered with stepped concave stops. On the 1st floor, the timbers are chamfered around doorway from staircase to middle room. This door is of oak with small scratch moulded panels and there is a similar door on the W side of this room. The dado is of similar panelling. The fire surround in the E wall is early C18 with swelled frieze and panelled centre piece. Door-beside it has H hinges. W end divided axially to 2 rooms with adjacent corner fireplaces. Stair continues to attic level with plank doors and iron hinges carried on hooks. Framework shows windows in every gable to front and rear, now blocked. Purlin roof original. There is no trace of the blocked original window, nor of the 2,4-centred fireplaces noted by the Royal Commission in 1911. (RCHM (1911) 204-5: VCH III (1912) 334). ..
Listing NGR: TL4742914172
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 160782
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Doubleday, A, The Victoria History of the County of Hertford, (1912), 334
Other
Inventory of the Historical Monuments of Hertfordshire, (1910)
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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