3 AND 4, THE SQUARE
3 AND 4, THE SQUARE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1347852
- Date first listed:
- 06-Jun-1952
- List Entry Name:
- 3 AND 4, THE SQUARE
- Statutory Address:
- 3 AND 4, THE SQUARE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1347852
- Date first listed:
- 06-Jun-1952
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 02-Oct-1981
- List Entry Name:
- 3 AND 4, THE SQUARE
- Statutory Address 1:
- 3 AND 4, THE SQUARE
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:
- 3 AND 4, THE SQUARE
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 48377 14807
Details
THE SQUARE 1. 5252 (West Side) Nos 3 and 4 (formerly listed as No 50 Bell Street) TL 4837 1481:3/40 6.6.52 II GV 2. Includes Nos 50 and 52 Bell Street. Late C16 (RCHM Typescript). Exterior changed in late C17 or early C18, C18 windows and porch, C19 shop fronts. Timber frame plastered under hipped old red tile roof. 2 storeys. S end gabled but with lower eaves at rear over former inn gallery. Main range fronts E to The Square and dragon beam at corner indicates it was probably jettied to both streets. 2 storey wing in Bell Street has higher Gd floor and may be later. Deep chamfered moulded axial beam in No 52 with 2 bar stops indicates fine quality of main range. Large internal chimney stack with attached shaft. Long E front of pargetting with raised panels over low black plinth. Wide coved eaves 8 flush box sash windows spaced 6 and 2 with 6/6 panes. Projecting triangular pedimented Doric porch with 2 freestanding columns on low square bases with chamfered tops. C19 shop front with plinth as stallriser and continuous entablature continuing in Bell Street. RCHM suggest gallery erected at rear in later C17 unlike usual inn gallery formed in framework of building (RCHM Typescript). Important C16 building at town centre in C18 disguise.
Listing NGR: TL4837714807
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 160857
- 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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