The Windmill Antiquary

THE WINDMILL ANTIQUARY, 4-4A, HIGH STREET

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Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1347848
Date first listed:
18-Oct-1949
List Entry Name:
The Windmill Antiquary
Statutory Address:
THE WINDMILL ANTIQUARY, 4-4A, HIGH STREET
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Official list entry

Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1347848
Date first listed:
18-Oct-1949
List Entry Name:
The Windmill Antiquary
Statutory Address 1:
THE WINDMILL ANTIQUARY, 4-4A, 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:
THE WINDMILL ANTIQUARY, 4-4A, 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:
Bishop's Stortford
National Grid Reference:
TL 48684 21401

Details

1. 5253 HIGH STREET (North Side)

Nos 4 and 4a (The Windmill Antiquary) (formerly The Bookshop) TL 4821 SE:3/36 18.10.49

II GV

2. c.1730 red brick parapetted house, old red tile roof. Three storeys. Three first and second storey segmental headed windows with C19 sash frames. Cut brick Doric pilasters to edges of elevation cut off by modern ground floor shop front. Architrave and frieze blocks and continuous, plastered brick dentilled cornice. Crowning parapet with moulded capping.

Listing NGR: TL4868421401

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Legacy System number:
160930
Legacy System:
LBS

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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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