NUMBERS 5 AND 7 (OLD JOINERS)

5 AND 7 (OLD JOINERS), TOWN LANE

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1347948
Date first listed:: 31-May-1984
List Entry Name:: NUMBERS 5 AND 7 (OLD JOINERS)
Statutory Address:: 5 AND 7 (OLD JOINERS), TOWN LANE

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1347948
Date first listed:: 31-May-1984
List Entry Name:: NUMBERS 5 AND 7 (OLD JOINERS)
Statutory Address 1:: 5 AND 7 (OLD JOINERS), TOWN LANE

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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This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

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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Location

Statutory Address:: 5 AND 7 (OLD JOINERS), TOWN LANE

The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.

County:: Hertfordshire
District:: East Hertfordshire (District Authority)
Parish:: Benington
National Grid Reference:: TL2991123605

Details

TL 2923 11/19

Benington BENINGTON TOWN LANE (north side) Nos 5, and 7 (Old Joiners)

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2 adjoining houses. No 5 C16 open hall house, C17 inserted floor and chimney backing onto cross-passage and front heightened, rear wing c.1980. No 7 C17, possibly as an extension to No 5, altered in C19 as separate house. Timber frames with weatherboarded apron to front. No 5 white weatherboarded front but plastered W gable. No 7 roughcast. Continuous old red tile roof carried down over rear outshut. Old red brick central chimney with ovolo-moulded cap to No 5. Internal E gable chimney to No 7. Later external red brick W gable chimney at No 5. No 5 is a 2- storeys, 3-cell plan house facing S, with large central chimney rising through front slope of roof. 3 windows to each floor. 2 and 3-light flush casements. Small boarded door up 2 steps with dripboard on shaped brackets and plaque inscribed 'MDX'. Interior has chamfered and stopped axial beam and joists in hall and large open fireplace, edge-halved scarf with bridled butts in old wallplate, head sockets for hall window and diamond mullioned window in former E wall, soot blackened rafters in clasped purlin roof with curved wind brace, wattle-and daub panels, curved tension braces, and exposed timber frame. No 7 is a 2-storeys, 2-cell, end chimney plan house facing S, with rear outshut. Front has 2 windows to 1st floor. 2-light flush casements. Ground floor has door on left and canted bay window to right. Boarded door with glass bullion panel and rectangular fanlight under drip-board on shaped brackets. Large mass of red brick gable chimney at E.

Listing NGR: TL2991123605

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Legacy System number:: 159614
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.